Abstract

Working in a health institution has more risk than the other ones in terms of being exposed to the violence. In recent years, the violence against the medical doctors and other health professionals has risen in the hospitals. Not only the patients but also their relatives are inclined to use violence to the health professionals. Moreover, the violence can be seen in everywhere in hospital, it can be most common in emergency services and the second most common in psychiatry clinics. The professionals who are exposed to violence experience physical and psychiatric problems. This has economical and psychological costs. For this research, a satisfaction questionnaire has been implemented to 253 health professionals in Ankara Child Health and Diseases Hematology Oncology Training and Research Hospital. The results of the questionnaire have been evaluated. 61.7 % of the professionals think that they are working in an unsecured medium and it is understood that 60% of the security staff, 21.7% of the nurses, 12.5% of the residents, 15.4 of the specialist doctors, 15.2% of the secretaries are exposed to the physical violence

Keywords: Physical abuse, workplace, violence

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Yakut Hİ, Burhan BY, Çiftçi A, Orhan MF. PHYSICAL ABUSE AND SECURITY IN HEALTH WORKPLACE: A STUDY FROM ANKARA CHILDREN’S HEMATOLOGY AND ONCOLOGY TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL. Turk J Pediatr Dis [Internet]. 2012 Jun. 1 [cited 2025 May 24];6(3):146-54. Available from: https://turkjpediatrdis.org/article/view/188