@article{ref1,
title="Health care violence and abuse towards nurses in hospitals in north of Iran",
journal="Global journal of health science",
year="2013",
author="Khademloo, Mohammad and Moonesi, Fatemeh Sheikh and Gholizade, Hamed",
volume="5",
number="4",
pages="211-216",
abstract="AIM: In the current survey, we explored the prevalence of verbal and physical abuse against the nurses in different hospitals of north of Iran. METHODS: We performed a cross-sectional survey. Nurses were interviewed using a standardized questionnaire (Staff Observation Scale Revised (SOAS-R)). The sample covered 400 participants from 5 hospitals of Mazandaran University of medical sciences, Sari, Iran. RESULTS: The sampling size involved 271 participants (271 forms from 400 forms (sampling population) were filled completely) including 193 female (71.2 %) and 78 male (28.8 %) participants. 79 (29.1%) participants experienced physical abuse and 260 (95.9%) participants were abused verbally. It was noted that in 35 cases (44.3%) the patients were the source of physical abuse and in 44 cases (55.6%) the members of patients' family were the source. In 79 (30.3%) cases the patients were the source of verbal violence and in 139 (53.4%) cases the members of patients' family were the source and in 42 (16.1%) cases coworkers were the sources. CONCLUSION: Verbal abuse was a common type of violence in our study in north of Iran. There is a requirement to increase awareness about this significant problem among health care workers.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1916-9736",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}