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Table 1 One-year prevalence of workplace violence and discrimination among occupational groups of hospital employees and compared with the working population of German-speaking Switzerland

From: Prevalence and health correlates of workplace violence and discrimination against hospital employees – a cross-sectional study in German-speaking Switzerland

 

Nurses and midwives

(n = 718)

Physicians and other academic staff

(n = 293)

Medical-therapeutic and medical-technical staff

(n = 221)

Administrative and other service staff

(n = 325)

Total hospital employees

(N = 1567)a)

Working population of German-speaking Switzerland

(N = 8281)b)

% (n)

% (n)

% (n)

% (n)

% (n)

% (n)c)

Forms of violence

 • Verbal abuse

9.3 (67)

6.8 (20)

3.6 (8)

4.6 (15)

7.1 (111)

4.7 (345)

 • Threats and humiliation

6.1 (44)

5.1 (15)

4.5 (10)

4.0 (13)

5.2 (82)

4.1 (306)

 • Physical violence

1.7 (12)

0.3 (1)

0.5 (1)

0.0 (0)

0.9 (14)

1.1 (75)

 • Intimidation or mobbing

11.3 (81)

8.2 (24)

9.5 (21)

8.9 (29)

9.9 (155)

6.5 (473)

 • Sexual harassment

1.5 (11)

0.7 (2)

0.0 (0)

0.6 (2)

1.0 (15)

0.8 (48)

Forms of discrimination

 • Due to age

4.5 (32)

4.4 (13)

4.1 (9)

6.2 (20)

4.7 (74)

5.7 (466)

 • Due to gender

2.9 (21)

8.2 (24)

4.5 (10)

2.5 (8)

4.1 (64)

3.9 (313)

 • Due to nationality, ethnicity or skin color

2.2 (16)

4.1 (12)

1.8 (4)

2.5 (8)

2.6 (41)

3.4 (233)

 • Due to disability

0.3 (2)

0.0 (0)

0.9 (2)

0.6 (2)

0.4 (6)

0.8 (60)

Total number of experienced forms of violence and/or discrimination

 • 0 (none)

75.6 (543)

76.8 (225)

78.7 (174)

80.9 (263)

77.3 (1212)

81.7 (6870)

 • 1 (one)

14.3 (103)

13.0 (38)

14.9 (33)

10.5 (34)

13.5 (211)

10.6 (823)

 • 2+ (accumulated)

10.0 (72)

10.2 (30)

6.3 (14)

8.6 (28)

9.2 (144)

7.7 (566)

  1. a) The sum of the numbers of cases of all occupational groups (N = 1557) does not equal the total number of hospital employees (N = 1567) since 10 respondents did not provide information on their profession
  2. b) Subsample of the Swiss Health Survey 2017 consisting of all employed and surveyed persons aged 15 and older from the following Swiss cantons: BE, LU, UR, SZ, OW, NW, GL, ZG, SO, BS, BL, SH, AR, AI, SG, GR, AG, TG, ZH
  3. c) Relative frequencies (%) based on weighted (and extrapolated) data from the Swiss Health Survey 2017; number of cases (n) based on unweighted data