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Table 3 Relative risk of violence at work in the different categories of health workers from 2005 to 2009

From: Violence towards health care workers in a Public Health Care Facility in Italy: a repeated cross-sectional study

 

Physical aggression (N = 107)

Threat1(N = 101)

Verbal violence(N = 229)

Harassment2(N = 25)

Male

1.00(0.74-1.70)

1.66 (1.08-2.54)*

1.02 (0.75-1.39)

0.99 (0.41-2.45)

Female

1

1

1

1

Physician

2.20 (1.16-4.16)*

4.32 (1.94-9.64)***

1.27 (0.84-1.94)

2.80 (0.90-8.75)

Nurse

2.36 (1.42-3. 92)**

4.03 (2.04-7.98)***

0.92 (0.67-1.28)

0.99 (0.37-2.72)

Other workers

1

1

1

1

Psychiatry

22.69 (9.75-52.82)***

27.79 (11.45-67.49)***

3.50 (2.10-5.84)***

2.61 (0.67-10.21)

A&E

5.12 (2.12-12.39)***

7.65 (3.21-18.23)***

1.99 (1.23-3.22)***

1.60 (0.42-6.17)

Medical & surgical wards

3.44 (1.49-7.93)**

2.54 (1.06-6.06)*

1.37 (0.90-2.08)

1.70 (0.56-5.10)

Outpatient

1.81 (0.66-4.93)

2.89 (1.11-7.55)*

1.25 (0.76-2.04)

0.85 (0.16-4.54)

Services

1

1

1

1

  1. Legenda: (1) data not collected in 2007; (2) data not collected in 2005 and 2007.
  2. (*):p < .05; (**)p < .01; (***) p < .001.
  3. Univariate logistic regression models, odds ratios (ORs) and 95 % confidence interval (CI95%).
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