title: Workplace violence: prevalence and risk factors in the safe at work study.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Nurses face one of the highest rates of reported workplace violence (WPV). This research examined the prevalence of WPV and demographic, work-related, and adult and childhood abuse histories as risk factors for WPV among 2166 nurses/nursing personnel across four health care institutions in one US metropolitan area.
  
  
  METHODS
  Using data from an online cross-sectional survey, multivariate logistic regression was utilized to determine risk factors for physical and psychological WPV.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Almost one-third (30%) of nurses/nursing personnel experienced WPV (19.4% physical, 19.9% psychological). Risk factors included being a nurse, white, male, working in the emergency department, older age, longer employment, childhood abuse, and intimate partner violence.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Adult and childhood abuse histories have not been considered in previous large-scale investigations, but were significant risk factors along with other previously identified risk factors for WPV.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
authors.forename: Jacquelyn C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Campbell
authors.forename: Jill Theresa
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Messing
authors.forename: Joan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kub
authors.forename: Jacqueline
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Agnew
authors.forename: Sheila
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fitzgerald
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Fowler
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sheridan
authors.forename: Cathleen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lindauer
authors.forename: Jo
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Deaton
authors.forename: Richelle
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bolyard
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D016529:Emergency Nursing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009726:Nurses / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D015995:Prevalence; D012307:Risk Factors; D013179:Spouse Abuse / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014754:Violence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D017132:Workplace / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D055815:Young Adult