Yesildag Ahmet Y, Turan Kurtaran Ayten, Sevim Ferit
Faculty of Health Sciences, Health Management Department, Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon, Turkey.
Institute of Health Sciences, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey.
Int Nurs Rev. 2025 Jun;72(2):e13026. doi: 10.1111/inr.13026. Epub 2024 Aug 14.
To identify the relationship between the violence-prevention climate and workplace happiness in hospitals. The secondary objective is to adapt a valid and reliable scale to a different culture in healthcare settings.
Healthcare settings are not immune to the harmful effects of violence, which can exacerbate existing challenges such as staff shortages. In the midst of these challenges, organizational efforts to ensure the safety of health workers are critical. These efforts can contribute positively to workers' happiness or well-being.
Using a cross-sectional design with 400 healthcare professionals from five hospitals in Trabzon, Turkey, data collection involved the Violence-Prevention Climate Scale and Workplace Happiness Scale. Confirmatory factor analysis was conducted to test the Turkish validity and reliability of the scale, and the consistency coefficient was calculated.
The findings revealed that, on average, employees exhibited high levels of violence-prevention climate ( = 4.22) and moderate levels of workplace happiness ( = 3.70). Subsequently, correlation analysis unveiled a statistically significant association between the dimensions of violence-prevention climate and workplace happiness (p < 0.05, r = 0.392). It was observed that those who experienced violence and did not feel safe in the workplace had lower levels of happiness.
The instances of healthcare workers being exposed to violence identified in the study largely align with previous theories related to both individual and organizational effects.
Violence-prevention climate affects the safety and workplace happiness of workers.
IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING AND/OR HEALTH POLICY: Employees expect their managers to seriously consider all reports of violence. In this context, creating a violence-prevention climate would be a good start. According to WHO 2030 targets, in an environment where there is a significant shortage of healthcare personnel, especially nurses, ensuring that existing employees work in a safer and happier environment will make a positive contribution to healthcare systems.
确定医院中预防暴力氛围与工作场所幸福感之间的关系。次要目标是使一个有效且可靠的量表适用于医疗环境中的不同文化。
医疗环境无法免受暴力的有害影响，暴力会加剧现有挑战，如人员短缺。在这些挑战中，组织为确保医护人员安全所做的努力至关重要。这些努力可对员工的幸福感或福祉产生积极影响。
采用横断面设计，对来自土耳其特拉布宗五家医院的400名医护人员进行研究，数据收集使用预防暴力氛围量表和工作场所幸福感量表。进行验证性因素分析以检验该量表在土耳其的有效性和可靠性，并计算一致性系数。
研究结果显示，平均而言，员工表现出较高水平的预防暴力氛围（ = 4.22）和中等水平的工作场所幸福感（ = 3.70）。随后，相关性分析揭示了预防暴力氛围维度与工作场所幸福感之间存在统计学上的显著关联（p < 0.05，r = 0.392）。据观察，那些在工作场所遭受暴力且感觉不安全的人幸福感较低。
研究中确定的医护人员遭受暴力的情况在很大程度上与先前有关个人和组织影响的理论相符。
预防暴力氛围会影响员工的安全和工作场所幸福感。
对护理和/或卫生政策的启示：员工期望其管理者认真考虑所有暴力报告。在这种情况下，营造预防暴力的氛围将是一个良好的开端。根据世界卫生组织2030年目标，在医护人员尤其是护士严重短缺的环境中，确保现有员工在更安全、更幸福的环境中工作将对医疗系统做出积极贡献。
