Perceptions and Prevalence of Workplace Violence in Healthcare

• Conditions: Violence
• Interventions: Other: No intervention.

• Registration Number: NCT05796323
• Lead Sponsor: Methodist Health System

Brief Summary

Workplace violence includes physical and verbal aggression as well as threatening behavior. All types of workplace violence incidents in health care are often under-reported, especially if there is no lasting physical injury.

Detailed Description

Research reveals that healthcare workers are three times more likely to experience workplace violence than any other occupation. The first step toward reducing the occurrence of violence is to understand the perceptions and prevalence of workplace violence.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2022-03-16
• Study First Submitted: 2023-02-16
• Status Verified: 2023-03
• Study First Submitted QC: 2023-03-30
• Last Update Submitted: 2023-03-30
• Study First Posted: 2023-04-03
• Last Update Posted: 2023-04-03
• Primary Completion: 2024-03-16
• Study Completion: 2024-03-16

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: ENROLLING_BY_INVITATION
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 3000

Inclusion Criteria

• Participants must be employed full-time, part-time, or per diem

Exclusion Criteria

• Inability to read English will cause a staff member to be excluded from the study, as the survey is written in English.

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Methodist Health System Employees	No intervention.	All MHS employees, clinical and non-clinical.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Level and type of workplace violence	Period of 6 months	Research Instruments Survey Questionnaire used to measure physical and psychological characteristics of violence at work
Impact on the individual employee/worker	Period of 6 months	Self-reported consequences in relation to work (e.g., distress/burnout, transfer/quits, absenteeism, financial situation, career path)

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Research Instruments Survey Questionnaire	Period of 6 months	Survey Monkey will be used to measured Frequency of reported incidents concerning the different forms of violence at work
Self-reported impact of violence on quality of care for patients	Period of 6 months	Impact on the organization (e.g., cost data, lost work days, staff fluctuation, staff shortage)

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Methodist Dallas Medical Center; 🇺🇸 Dallas, Texas, United States