Working in labor and delivery unit increases the odds of work place violence in Amhara region referral hospitals: Cross-sectional study.

<h4>Background</h4>Workplace violence is any act of negative behavior that causes, physically and psychologically harm to health professionals face in the workplace. The prevalence of workplace violence becomes a challenging occupational issue with increasing nature worldwide. In spite o...

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Autores principales:	Eyaya Habtie Dagnaw, Abrham Walelign Bayabil, Tigist Seid Yimer, Tewodros Seyoum Nigussie
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:f76cca07469d417293ef4dab795e21bb2021-12-02T20:13:37ZWorking in labor and delivery unit increases the odds of work place violence in Amhara region referral hospitals: Cross-sectional study.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0254962https://doaj.org/article/f76cca07469d417293ef4dab795e21bb2021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0254962https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203<h4>Background</h4>Workplace violence is any act of negative behavior that causes, physically and psychologically harm to health professionals face in the workplace. The prevalence of workplace violence becomes a challenging occupational issue with increasing nature worldwide. In spite of the seriousness and the impact of the problem, little is known about its magnitude and determinants in the study area and even in Ethiopia.<h4>Objective</h4>The study aimed to assess the magnitude of workplace violence and its associated factors among health care providers working for the last one year at Obstetrics and gynecology department in Amhara Regional State Referral Hospitals, Ethiopia 2019.<h4>Methods</h4>Institutional based cross-sectional study was conducted from October 1st to 30th, 2019. 503 study participants were incorporated in the study. A pre-tested structured questionnaire was used to collect the data. Data were entered into EPI info version 7.2.3.1 and analyzed using SPSS version 23. Binary Logistic regression model was fitted to identify factors associated with workplace violence considering the association to be significant p- value <0.05.<h4>Result</h4>This study revealed that 44.5%of the health care providers had reported workplace violence (95% CI: 40.2-48.7). Of this majority of the Victims were experienced a verbal type of violence 200 (88.1%), followed by physical 14 (6.2%), sexual 11 (4.8%), and racial two (0.8%). Factors of workplace violence in this research with statically significant, were: working in labor ward (AOR = 7.4,95% CI: 2.9-18.7), Female sex of participant (AOR = 2.4, 95% CI:1.4-4), work experience less than 5 years(AOR 8.5, 95%CI:7.3-33.3) and numbers of staff less than5 in a shift (AOR = 5.3 95% CI:3.8-39.8) and 5-10 staff in a shift (AOR = 3.3, 95% CI:2.7-25).<h4>Conclusion and recommendations</h4>The prevalence of workplace violence among obstetrics and gynecology department health professionals in Amhara regional state referral hospitals was high. Developing an incident resolution protocol and legislations to encourage health professionals to prompt report violent acts and judicial punishment of perpetrators will be useful to combat workplace violence at obstetrics and gynecology department.Eyaya Habtie DagnawAbrham Walelign BayabilTigist Seid YimerTewodros Seyoum NigussiePublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 10, p e0254962 (2021)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Eyaya Habtie Dagnaw Abrham Walelign Bayabil Tigist Seid Yimer Tewodros Seyoum Nigussie Working in labor and delivery unit increases the odds of work place violence in Amhara region referral hospitals: Cross-sectional study.
description	<h4>Background</h4>Workplace violence is any act of negative behavior that causes, physically and psychologically harm to health professionals face in the workplace. The prevalence of workplace violence becomes a challenging occupational issue with increasing nature worldwide. In spite of the seriousness and the impact of the problem, little is known about its magnitude and determinants in the study area and even in Ethiopia.<h4>Objective</h4>The study aimed to assess the magnitude of workplace violence and its associated factors among health care providers working for the last one year at Obstetrics and gynecology department in Amhara Regional State Referral Hospitals, Ethiopia 2019.<h4>Methods</h4>Institutional based cross-sectional study was conducted from October 1st to 30th, 2019. 503 study participants were incorporated in the study. A pre-tested structured questionnaire was used to collect the data. Data were entered into EPI info version 7.2.3.1 and analyzed using SPSS version 23. Binary Logistic regression model was fitted to identify factors associated with workplace violence considering the association to be significant p- value <0.05.<h4>Result</h4>This study revealed that 44.5%of the health care providers had reported workplace violence (95% CI: 40.2-48.7). Of this majority of the Victims were experienced a verbal type of violence 200 (88.1%), followed by physical 14 (6.2%), sexual 11 (4.8%), and racial two (0.8%). Factors of workplace violence in this research with statically significant, were: working in labor ward (AOR = 7.4,95% CI: 2.9-18.7), Female sex of participant (AOR = 2.4, 95% CI:1.4-4), work experience less than 5 years(AOR 8.5, 95%CI:7.3-33.3) and numbers of staff less than5 in a shift (AOR = 5.3 95% CI:3.8-39.8) and 5-10 staff in a shift (AOR = 3.3, 95% CI:2.7-25).<h4>Conclusion and recommendations</h4>The prevalence of workplace violence among obstetrics and gynecology department health professionals in Amhara regional state referral hospitals was high. Developing an incident resolution protocol and legislations to encourage health professionals to prompt report violent acts and judicial punishment of perpetrators will be useful to combat workplace violence at obstetrics and gynecology department.
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author	Eyaya Habtie Dagnaw Abrham Walelign Bayabil Tigist Seid Yimer Tewodros Seyoum Nigussie
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title	Working in labor and delivery unit increases the odds of work place violence in Amhara region referral hospitals: Cross-sectional study.
title_short	Working in labor and delivery unit increases the odds of work place violence in Amhara region referral hospitals: Cross-sectional study.
title_full	Working in labor and delivery unit increases the odds of work place violence in Amhara region referral hospitals: Cross-sectional study.
title_fullStr	Working in labor and delivery unit increases the odds of work place violence in Amhara region referral hospitals: Cross-sectional study.
title_full_unstemmed	Working in labor and delivery unit increases the odds of work place violence in Amhara region referral hospitals: Cross-sectional study.
title_sort	working in labor and delivery unit increases the odds of work place violence in amhara region referral hospitals: cross-sectional study.
publisher	Public Library of Science (PLoS)
publishDate	2021
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Working in labor and delivery unit increases the odds of work place violence in Amhara region referral hospitals: Cross-sectional study.

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