Work-Related Violence Policy: A Process Evaluation

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• Personal Author:
  Findorff MJ ; McGovern, Patricia M. ; Sinclair S
• Description:
  This study describes one employer's approach to evaluating employees' knowledge of a violence prevention policy and experience with work-related physical and non-physical violence. A cross-sectional design was used to collect data from a random sample of current and former employees of a Midwest health care organization via a specially designed mailed questionnaire and the employer's internal database. While 7% of employees reported experiencing physical violence in the workplace, almost half of all employees had experienced non-physical violence. Most employees were aware of the organization's violence policy; however, few reported violence or used organizational resources (e.g., employee health) following the violence. Employees experienced symptoms and productivity losses in association with both types of violence. Process evaluations are an effective means of evaluating whether violence policies are used as intended and can provide organizations with considerable information to make effective programmatic changes. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Health Personnel Men Occupational Health Safety Staff Development Surveys And Questionnaires Women Workplace
• Keywords:
  Health-care-personnel Health-surveys Injuries Injury-prevention Medical-personnel Physical-reactions Quantitative-analysis Questionnaires Statistical-analysis Training Traumatic-injuries Work-environment Work-organization Work-practices Workplace-monitoring

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• ISSN:
  0891-0162
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Minnesota ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  360-369
• Volume:
  53
• Issue:
  8
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20037468
• Citation:
  AAOHN J 2005 Aug; 53(8):360-369
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2005
• Performing Organization:
  University of Minnesota Twin Cities
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  AAOHN Journal - American Association of Occupational Health Nurses Journal
• End Date:
  20250630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:faba6e6bd5765457004f38c50c95163241953629ddbad6e9022669660bb26cc9e6604e633ea507ba6269b8f3a67cb5dfc00d31ac57dbd8fe5ef7e0968e730443
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/188560/cdc_188560_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.33 MB ]