Yale School of Nursing, Yale University, Orange, New Haven, CT, USA.
Department of Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA.
J Urban Health. 2024 Oct;101(5):934-941. doi: 10.1007/s11524-024-00912-5. Epub 2024 Aug 21.
Federal data indicate that assaults on transit workers resulting in fatalities or hospitalizations tripled between 2008 and 2022. The data indicated a peri-pandemic surge of assault-related fatalities and hospitalizations, but assaults with less dire outcomes were not recorded. In collaboration with the Transport Workers Union, Local 100, we conducted an online survey in late 2023 through early 2024 of New York City public-facing bus and subway workers that focused on their work experiences during the 2020-2023 period of the COVID-19 pandemic. Items for this analysis on victimization included measures of physical and sexual assault/harassment, verbal harassment/intimidation, theft, and demographic characteristics (e.g., sex, race, work division). We estimated separate modified Poisson models for each of the four outcomes, yielding prevalence ratios (PRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs). Potential interactions between variables with strong main effects in the adjusted model were further examined using product terms. Among 1297 respondents, 89.0% reported any victimization; respondents also reported physical assault (48.6%), sexual assault/harassment (6.3%), verbal harassment/intimidation (48.7%), and theft on the transit system (20.6%). Physical assault was significantly more common among women in the bus division compared to female subway workers, male bus workers, and male subway workers (adjusted PR (aPR) = 3.54; reference = male subway workers; Wald test p < .001). With the same reference group, sexual assault/harassment was more frequently reported among female subway workers (aPR = 5.15; Wald test, p < .001), but verbal assault/intimidation and experiencing theft were least common among women in the bus division (aPR = 0.22 and 0.13, respectively; Wald tests, p < .001). These data point to the need for greater attention to record and report on victimization against workers in both buses and subway.
联邦数据显示，2008 年至 2022 年期间，导致 Transit 工人死亡或住院的袭击事件增加了两倍。数据显示，大流行期间袭击相关的死亡和住院人数激增，但没有记录到后果不太严重的袭击事件。我们与 Transport Workers Union, Local 100 合作，于 2023 年末至 2024 年初对纽约市面向公众的公共汽车和地铁工人进行了一项在线调查，重点是他们在 2020-2023 年 COVID-19 大流行期间的工作经历。这项分析中关于受害情况的项目包括身体和性攻击/骚扰、言语骚扰/恐吓、盗窃以及人口特征（例如，性别、种族、工作部门）的衡量标准。我们为每个四个结果分别估计了修正后的泊松模型，得出患病率比（PR）和 95%置信区间（CI）。在调整后的模型中具有强烈主要效应的变量之间的潜在相互作用，进一步使用乘积项进行了检查。在 1297 名受访者中，89.0%报告了任何形式的受害情况；受访者还报告了在交通系统上遭受身体攻击（48.6%）、性攻击/骚扰（6.3%）、言语骚扰/恐吓（48.7%）和盗窃（20.6%）。与男性地铁工人相比，巴士部门的女性受到身体攻击的情况明显更为常见，巴士部门的女性受到身体攻击的情况比男性巴士工人和男性地铁工人更为常见（调整后的患病率比（aPR）=3.54；参考=男性地铁工人； Wald 检验，p<.001）。以同一参考组为例，女性地铁工人更频繁地报告性攻击/骚扰（aPR=5.15； Wald 检验，p<.001），而巴士部门的女性报告言语攻击/恐吓和遭遇盗窃的情况最少（aPR 分别为 0.22 和 0.13； Wald 检验，p<.001）。这些数据表明，需要更加关注巴士和地铁工人的受害情况，并记录和报告这些情况。
