Investigation of psychological violence at hospital workplace in Guangzhou

Objective To study epidemiological features and correlation factors of psychological violence at hospital workplace.Methods Convenience sampling survey on the occurrence of psycho logical violence among medical staff was carried out in two grade Ⅲ general hospitals in Guangzhou city.Results A total of 260 questionnaire swere distributed with 249 valid questionnaires returned with a returnrate of 95.7%.Of 249 medical staff investigated,150 medical workers(60.2%)suffered from psy chological violence in last 12 months.Binary logistic regression suggested that the staff with college or bachelor degree had a higher risk of psycho logical violence than post graduates(OR=2.008,95% CI=1.805-7.553,P<0.01;OR=3.692,95% CI=1.805-7.553,P<0.05).Com pared with the staff aged ≥ 31 years,the staff aged 19-30 years were at higher risk of psychdogical violence(OR=2.140,95% CI=1.211-3.783,P<0.01).Most of hospital psychological violence occured during the day shift or in the ward.Conclusion The main related factors of hospital psy cholo gical violence were educational background and age.Comprehensive measures should be adopted to reduce psychological violence.