Violence against physicians in Jordan: An analytical cross-sectional study

Ruba Alhamad, Aiman Suleiman, Isam Bsisu, Abeer Santarisi, Ahmad Al Owaidat, Albatool Sabri, Mohammad Farraj, Mohammad Al Omar, Rawan Almazaydeh, Ghada Odeh, Mohammad Al Mousa and Mohamad Mahseeri

PLOS ONE, 2021, vol. 16, issue 1, 1-14

Abstract: Background: High numbers of violence incidents against physicians are reported annually in both developing and developed countries. In Jordan, studies conducted on healthcare workers involved small number of physicians and showed higher percentages of violence exposure when compared to other investigations from the Middle East. This is a large study aiming to comprehensively analyze the phenomenon in the physicians’ community to optimize future strategies countering it. Methods: The study has a cross sectional, questionnaire-based design. It targeted 969 doctors from different types of healthcare Jordanian institutions in Amman, between May to July, 2019. The questionnaire was designed to evaluate properties of reported abuse cases in terms of abusers, timing, and type of abuse, in addition to the consequences of this abuse. Results: Prevalence of exposure to violence in the last year among doctors was 63.1% (611 doctors). 423 (67.2%) of male doctors had an experience of being abused during the last 12 months, compared to 188 (55.3%) of females (p

Date: 2021
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