Mullan Barbara, Badger Frances
School of Psychology, University of Sydney, Australia.
Nurs Stand. 2007;21(27):35-8. doi: 10.7748/ns2007.03.21.27.35.c4529.
To investigate the incidence of violence and aggression towards staff working in elderly care wards and to consider the factors that influence the risk of experiencing such an incident.
Questionnaires were administered to 287 nursing and therapy staff within a community health NHS trust in the West Midlands. A response rate of 34% (96) was achieved.
Fifty one per cent (49) of staff had experienced an incident of violence or aggression. There was a significant difference between the probability of experiencing violence and the occupation of the participant (chi2 = 0.035), with 65% (31 of 48) of nurses having experienced an incident, compared to only 42% (10 of 24) of occupational therapists and 27% (4 of 15) of physiotherapists.
This study should be replicated in a wider geographical area and apparent anomalies in frequency of assault by occupation need to be considered in future research.
调查老年护理病房工作人员遭受暴力和攻击行为的发生率，并探讨影响此类事件发生风险的因素。
对西米德兰兹郡一家国民保健服务信托机构社区卫生部门的287名护理和治疗人员进行问卷调查。回复率为34%（96人）。
51%（49人）的工作人员曾经历过暴力或攻击事件。经历暴力事件的概率与参与者的职业之间存在显著差异（卡方=0.035），65%（48人中的31人）的护士曾经历过此类事件，相比之下，职业治疗师中只有42%（24人中的10人），物理治疗师中只有27%（15人中的4人）有过此类经历。
本研究应在更广泛的地理区域内重复进行，未来研究需要考虑职业攻击频率方面明显的异常情况。
