Investigating Physical Violence Against Classroom and Other School Personnel Using Ohio Workers’ Compensation Data: 2001–2012

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• Journal Article:
  Occupational Health Science
• Personal Author:
  Howald, Nicholas R. ; Naber, Steven J. ; Pavisic, Ivica C. ; Streit, Jessica M. K.
• Description:
  This study uses workers' compensation data to explore the extent, severity, and context of violence-related injuries sustained by classroom (teachers and aides) and other school personnel (e.g., administrators, education support specialists, security, custodial and maintenance workers, food workers) in Ohio's K-12 urban public schools. The Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation provided access to claims filed by workers from the state's nine urban school districts from January 01, 2001 to December 31, 2012 (N = 19,508). Injury trends were explored with descriptive statistics and logistic regression analyses. Approximately 25% of all filed claims were violence-related. Overall, violence-related injury rates remained relatively stable from the 2001-2002 to the 2011-2012 academic year. However, the odds of victimization for classroom personnel were 1.84 times the odds of victimization for other school personnel. For both classroom and other school personnel, the most common injuries resulting from violent events included contusions; sprains to the neck, back, and upper or lower extremities, and open wounds. Most violence-related injuries were sustained during direct contact with students displaying escalated or aggressive behavior, or during efforts to de-escalate third-party violence. Implications of using workers' compensation data to inform workplace violence research and practice are discussed. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Education Epidemiology Occupational Health Safety Schools Violence Workers' Compensation Workplace
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: School Violence; School Health; Workplace Violence; Occupational Health; Occupational Injury; Workers' Compensation; Injury Claims Workplace Violence; Teaching; Education; Workers Compensation; Injuries; Assaults; Epidemiology;
• Source:
  Occup Health Sci 2020 Jun; 4(1-2):43-62
• ISSN:
  2367-0134
• Pubmed ID:
  34549081
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC8451063
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/ ; U60OH011141/ACL/ACL HHSUnited States/
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OD - Office of the Director
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  23 pdf pages
• Volume:
  4
• Issue:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20065144
• Contact Point Address:
  Jessica M. K. Streit, Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1090 Tusculum Ave MS C24, Cincinnati, OH, 45226, USA
• Email:
  jstreit@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2020
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:90fa70872180a7eb34cf89b0e6817495eec5d22c3fb67456bcfe5c47d4fcfbc0bcc2c83301cb5cdf10e9a0d31721d69e3463a879c8a259e841274fc4f3d14d7b
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/110279/cdc_110279_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 518.36 KB ]