Occupational physical assault and violence prevention training: the Minnesota educators' study

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• Personal Author:
  Church, Timothy R. ; Feda DM ; Geiser MS ; Gergerich SG ; McGovern, Patricia M. ; Mongin, Steven J. ; Nachreiner, Nancy M. ; Ryan, Andrew D. ; Sage SK ; Watt GD
• Description:
  Introduction: Recent events heightened awareness of school violence affecting educators. Previously, the focus had been on students, not teachers. Methods: Data were analyzed from a population-based study of 26,000 randomly selected Minnesota educators. 6469 were eligible and contacted in study Phase 1 to determine violent events. In Phase 2 (case-control study), cases (n=299 reporting physical assault in previous year) and controls n=(867, no events) provided exposure information for the month prior to assault, and randomly selected months, respectively. Directed acyclic graphs were used to select confounders for multiple regression analyses. Results: Response for each study phase was 84%. Cases and controls, respectively, reported being trained about the following ten topics by their current employer/school: resolving conflicts (55%, 54%); using appropriate restraining techniques (55%, 27%); reporting work-related physical assault (54%, 50%); preventing bullying (53%, 58%); reporting work-related harassment (52%, 52%); managing threats/assaults (51%, 44%); recognizing risk factors for violence (50%, 41%); having a violence prevention policy (49%, 37%); using self-defense (29%, 12%); and operating safety alarms or devices (20%, 22%). The majority of cases and controls received one-two sessions of violence prevention training in the past year (60%, 56%) for primarily less than five hours (cases, 37%; controls, 46%). Preliminary multivariate analyses indicated that those trained to use appropriate restraint techniques had an increased risk of physical assault (OR: 1.68; 95% CI: 1.08-2.59). Conclusions: Empirical evidence on the efficacy of training on violence prevention is lacking. These data are critical to understand the association of training and physical assault of educators. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Behavior Demography Education Epidemiology Men Mental Health Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Violence Women Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Violence Demographic-characteristics Exposure-levels Force Hazards Humans Mental-health Physical-stress Risk-factors School Health Statistical-analysis Stress Teaching Work-environment Workers

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• Publisher:
  American Public Health Association
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Abstract or Summary
• Place as Subject:
  Minnesota ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20043827
• Citation:
  APHA 136th Annual Meeting and Exposition, San Diego, California, October 25-29, 2008. Washington, DC: American Public Health Association, 2008 Oct; :176673
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2009
• Performing Organization:
  University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20040501
• Source Full Name:
  APHA 136th Annual Meeting and Exposition, San Diego, California, October 25-29, 2008
• End Date:
  20080430
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:26e0e0a48f60cb3c3d0a34cd39029759f9316a4b4197a526435655c1b20767f0ab665c953bde0357078fd452898101e8798445b846b92be2182c75ccc1638233
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/199712/cdc_199712_DS1.pdf
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