@article{ref1,
title="Prevalence of workplace sexual violence against healthcare workers providing home care: a systematic review and meta-analysis",
journal="International journal of environmental research and public health",
year="2020",
author="Clari, Marco and Conti, Alessio and Scacchi, Alessandro and Scattaglia, Marco and Dimonte, Valerio and Gianino, Maria Michela",
volume="17",
number="23",
pages="e8807-e8807",
abstract="This systematic review and meta-analysis sought to explore the prevalence of sexual  violence including both sexual harassment and abuse, perpetrated by clients against  home healthcare workers (HCWs), including professional and paraprofessional HCWs. To  this end, we systematically searched five relevant databases. Two reviewers  extracted data from the included studies independently and performed a quality  appraisal. Overall and subgroup random-effects pooled prevalence meta-analyses were  performed. Due to high heterogeneity, a more robust model using a quality effect  estimator was used. Fourteen studies were included, and the prevalence of sexual  violence was 0.06 (95% confidence interval (CI): 0.01-0.13). Paraprofessionals had a  higher prevalence of sexual violence (0.07, 95% CI: 0.00-0.18 vs. 0.05, 95% CI:  0.00-0.12), and the prevalence of sexual abuse was lower than that of sexual  harassment (0.04, 95% CI: 0.00-0.10 vs. 0.10, 95% CI: 0.03-0.18). This systematic  review estimated the prevalence of sexual violence across home HCWs from different  high-income countries, highlighting the presence of this phenomenon to a lesser but  nevertheless considerable extent compared to other healthcare settings. Health  management should consider interventions to prevent and reduce the risk of home HCWs  from being subjected to sexual violence, as the home-care sector presents particular  risks for HCWs because clients' homes expose them to a relatively uncontrolled work  environment.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1661-7827",
doi="10.3390/ijerph17238807",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17238807"
}