Workplace violence

Abstract

Currently, workplace violence affects millions of people around the world, causing great consequences both personally, at work and in society, with emotional, economic, and social implications. Given the complexity of the role of psychosocial factors in the work context, it is clear that the workers’ health needs specialized care from Occupational Health Nursing. However, although there are previous contributions from this area in the study of violence, little has been studied about this phenomenon and its relationship with psychosocial factors, so this research aims to contribute to this area by examining the link between these factors and violence in the context of work. For this, a correlational study was carried out in which a sample, non-probabilistic sample of 267 workers from a municipality in the metropolitan area of the country completed an administered survey, which asked about sociodemographic, psychosocial factors and experiences of workplace violence. Data were entered into SPSS and analyzed using descriptive statistics and Pearson correlations. The sample consisted of people aged 43.9+11.7 years, and most of them identified as men (n=220, 82.7%). The results indicate that ex-periences of violence are prevalent in the work environment. The analyses show that there is a statistically sig-nificant association (p<0.001) among the level of violence and the healthy perception of a relationship with su-periors, working time, and the use of working time. Implications for Occupational Nursing are further dis-cussed.