Citation

Chen S, Lin S, Ruan Q, Li H, Wu S. Arch. Environ. Occup. Health 2015; 71(6): 330-337.

Affiliation

a Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics , School of Public Health, Fujian Medical University , Fuzhou , Fujian , China.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/19338244.2015.1128874

PMID

26654585

Abstract

The present study was to evaluate workplace violence and to examine its impact on job burnout and turnover attempt among medical staffs in China. A total of 2020 medical staffs were selected from Fujian province by using stratified cluster sampling method. Chinese version of workplace violence scale and Maslach Burnout Inventory-General Survey were used to measure the workplace violence and job burnout respectively, other potential influencing factors for job burnout and turnover attempt were collected using a structured questionnaire. The incidence of workplace violence among medical staffs was 48.0%. Interesting, workplace violence had positive correlation with emotional exhaustion and cynicism, while had negative correlation with professional efficacy. In this study, workplace violence, marital status, employment type, working time (≥10 h /day), performance recognized and life satisfaction were significant predictors for turnover attempt among Chinese medical staffs.

Language: en