Academic Unit of Human Medicine and Health Sciences, Autonomous University of Zacatecas, Zacatecas 98040, Mexico.
Academic Unit of Electrical Engineering, Autonomous University of Zacatecas, Zacatecas 98040, Mexico.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Dec 29;19(1):318. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19010318.
The increase of insecurity levels in Mexico, as well as the fact that violence is a frequent experience among health personnel, motivated this study whose purpose was to evaluate the perception of security and violence that social service medical interns (SSMI) had on the institutions and localities where they carried out their social work and make visible the main types of violence to which they were exposed. This was a cross-sectional study, based on a perception survey self-administered to 157 SSMI from Zacatecas, in Mexico. A high proportion of the participants (75.8%) stated that they were victims of violence, describing 134 incidents; however, only 33.6% of SSMI made an official report. The reported incidents were related to organized crime (31.9%), verbal violence (20.6%), violence by the authorities (14.7%) and sexual harassment (11.8%). One hundred percent of the victims of sexual harassment were women ( = 0.039). According to the above, it is a priority to generate strategies to prevent and reduce the risk of exposure to the violence generated in the medical units and communities where SSMI carry out their activities as medical graduates, as well as, to efficiently process formal violence reports to promote a safe environment that favors the fulfillment of the practice of SSMIs in Mexico.
墨西哥不安全水平的上升，以及暴力是卫生人员经常经历的事实，促使了这项研究，其目的是评估社会服务医学实习生（SSMI）对他们进行社会实践的机构和地点的安全和暴力感知，并揭示他们所面临的主要类型的暴力。这是一项基于对来自墨西哥萨卡特卡斯的 157 名 SSMI 进行的感知调查的横断面研究。很大比例的参与者（75.8%）表示自己是暴力的受害者，描述了 134 起事件；然而，只有 33.6%的 SSMI 提出了正式报告。报告的事件与有组织犯罪（31.9%）、言语暴力（20.6%）、当局暴力（14.7%）和性骚扰（11.8%）有关。性骚扰的受害者 100%是女性（=0.039）。根据上述情况，优先制定策略以预防和减少 SSMI 在开展活动的医疗单位和社区中遭受暴力的风险，以及有效处理正式的暴力报告，以促进一个安全的环境，有利于履行 SSMI 在墨西哥的实践。
