Cross-sectional Survey On Prevalence And Correlated Factors Of Workplace Violence Against Nursing Students

Objectives:To estimate the prevalence of workplace violence against nurses in China.To analyse correlation between clinic communication competence,job burmout and prevalence of workplace violence against nursing students.Methods:This study used the method of convenience sampling.We selected 390 nursing students from 10 tertiary hospitals in JiangSu Province to investigate.Workplace violence questionnaire,Nurses9 clinic communication competency scale and Professional burnout Scale was used in this cross-sectional survey.SPSS 19.0 was used to make statistical analysis.Results:1.557 effective questionnaires have been got.5.7%of the nursing students reported physically violent experiences and 76.7%reported nonphysically violent experiences over the internship career.2.Nursing students' clinic communication competene falls into superior middling.Emotional exhaustion belons to a middle level of exhaustion,while Depersonalization and Personal accomplishment being a high level of exhaustion.3.The nurses' clinic communication competency scale contains 6 dimensions:team communication competency,basic language communication competency,basic non-language communication competency,emotional perception competency,emotional support competency and communication competency in difficult clinic scene.The relativity between team communication competency,emotional perception competency,emotional support competency,communication competency in difficult clinic scene and physical violence were statistically significant(P<0.01);The relativity between team communication competency,basic language communication competency,basic non-language communication competency,emotional perception competency,emotional support competency,communication competency in difficult clinic scene and abuse were statistically significant(P<0.01);The relativity between team communication competency,basic language communication competency,basic non-language communication competency,emotional perception competency,emotional support competency,communication competency in difficult clinic scene and threat were statistically significant(P<0.01,P<0.05).4.Logistic regression analysis indicated that team communication competency(OR=0.336)and communication competency in difficult clinic scene(OR=0.454)were the influential factors of physical violence.Emotional perception competency(OR=0.519),basic non-language communication competeney(OR=0.615)and communication competency in difficult clinic scene(OR=0.662)were the influential factors of abuse.Sex(OR=0.332),basic language communication competency(OR=0.485)and emotional perception competency(OR=0.623)were the influential factors of threat.Abuse and Medical trouble were the influential factors of emotional exhaustion(OR?4.162,2.729),depersonalization(OR=4.246,2.974)and personal accomplishment(OR=3.347,2.489).Conclusion:The prevalence of workplace violence against nursing students was high,abuse was the main form of workplace violence.Clinical communication competency were the influential factor of workplace violence.While workplace violence were the influential factor of job burnout.Therefore,nursing students should improve their abilities of communication,thus to decrease the probabilities of undertaking WPV.On the other hand,hospital managers need to make the related management systems stronger and comprehensive,in order to reduce the incidence of WPV and mitigate the felling of job burnout of nursing students.