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Health Policy & Economic Research Unit Figure 2 shows that doctors in the SHO hospital grade (63%) were more likely to report experience of violence in the workplace, followed by GPs (43%), whilst only one in five academic doctors reported workplace violence (table 8). Four in five (79%) doctors experienced violence from patients and 52 per cent experienced violence from patients’ families/relatives. Other respondents reported experiencing violence from patients’ friends or companions (14%) or from ‘others’ (3%). ‘Others’ included nurses and colleagues (Figure 3). Figure 2 Reported experience of workplace violence according to current position (%) 100% 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% SHO GP Consultant Staff grade & Assoc Specialist Table 8 Reported experience of workplace violence according to current position Foundation year trainee SHO Specialist registrar Staff grade and associate specialist GP (incl. principals, non-principals and locums) Consultant Clinical academic Other Foundation year trainee % reported experience of violence 36.4 63.0 34.2 36.8 42.5 37.1 20.0 30.0 SpR Other Academic Total respondents (n) Violence in the workplace – The experience of doctors in Northern Ireland 9 11 109 114 68 407 225 5 20 No Yes
10 Health Policy & Economic Research Unit Figure 3 Perpetrators of violence against doctors (%) % of respondents 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 The majority of doctors who reported experience of violence in the workplace, experienced some form of verbal abuse (96%), followed by almost half (46%) who experienced some form of threat and 10 per cent who had experienced some form of physical assault. Respondents were asked about the number of times in the past year that they had experienced some form of violence or abuse. The incidence of verbal abuse was the most frequent, with 25 per cent of respondents experiencing this form of abuse more than 5 times in the last year. This was followed by threats and physical assaults. The main forms of verbal abuse reported were swearing/abusive language, shouting, verbal threats and personal intimidation (Table 9). Table 9 Forms of verbal abuse experienced by respondents Swearing/abusive language Shouting Verbal threats Personal intimidation Spitting Sectarianism Racial comments Other Patients Patients family/relatives Patients friend/companion Other More than a quarter (27%-108/401) of doctors who reported experience of workplace violence, experienced physical violence or abuse. These incidents ranged from being kicked, scratched, shoved, urinated upon, hit and punched, to knife assaults and being threatened with a chair, a drip stand and hot soup. Among those doctors who had experienced physical violence or abuse, a third (35%) stated that they received minor injuries as a result of the incident and 3 per cent reported serious injuries. Violence in the workplace – The experience of doctors in Northern Ireland % reported experience Total respondents 89.5 73.1 48.4 34.2 9.5 9.0 3.5 3.5 359 293 194 137 38 36 14 14
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