@article{ref1,
title="Assessment of antecedents for violence against doctors: a cross sectional study on health worker component",
journal="International journal of community medicine and public health (Gujarat)",
year="2020",
author="Panigrahi, Sunil Kumar and Satpathy, Parmeshwar and Majumdar, Sagarika and Pal, Anjali",
volume="7",
number="5",
pages="1896-1900",
abstract="BACKGROUND: The occupational safety and health administration considers physicians, nurses and other healthcare providers to be vulnerable and at a high risk of workplace violence. 75% of the doctors in India have been victims of violence at workplace.   Methods: This was a hospital based cross sectional study among resident doctors in a tertiary care hospital of Maharashtra.   Results: Among 137 residents interviewed, 81% of them faced verbal abuse in previous 1 year. In 57.6% of the cases the perpetrators of violence were the relatives of the patients. The most common place of harassment was the indoor patient wards followed by emergency/casualty department.   Conclusions: Lifestyle factors such as quality of sleep pattern, addictions have associations with events of harassment among the resident doctors. There should be a comprehensive plan aimed at reducing the lifestyle risk factors of the physicians and allow them proper rest between duty hours.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2394-6032",
doi="10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20202002",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20202002"
}