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Learning Objective 1: The purpose of this study was to explore the violence experience of home visiting health care workers in Korea.
Learning Objective 2: The purpose of this study was to explore the violence experience of home visiting health care workers in Korea.
The purpose of this study was to explore the violence experience of home visiting health care workers in Korea.
Methods:
This study is a cross-sectional survey. Data were collected from 1,640 health care workers by self-report questionnaires from September 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010.
Results:
Most of respondents had experienced work-related violence. Shouting was the most common verbal violence and touching the hands and verbalizing sexual remarks to the health care workers were the most common acts relating sexual harrassment. Respondents expressed they felt anger and anxious after the violence. About half of respondents stated they had felt threatening while working. Half of respondents who had violence (50.7%) told to the peer about the violence. However, the major reasons which didn't report the violence were they felt it is useless to report and they expected such incidents to occur as part of their job. Most of respondents (86.4%) wanted to have an education on violence.
Conclusion:
This study indicates that efforts should be made to increase awareness and to minimize the violence in workplace. Also, educational programs should be designed to improve knowledge and to prevent workplace violence.