Characteristics of workplace violence prevention training and violent events among home health and hospice care providers

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• Personal Author:
  Casteel C ; Harrison, Robert ; Nocera M ; Peek-Asa, Corinne ; Vladutiu CJ
• Description:
  Background: In the rapidly growing home health and hospice industry, little is known about workplace violence prevention (WVP) training and violent events. Methods: We examined the characteristics of WVP training and estimated violent event rates among 191 home health and hospice care providers from six agencies in California. Training characteristics were identified from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration guidelines. Rates were estimated as the number of violent events divided by the total number of home visit hours. Results: Between 2008 and 2009, 66.5% (n=127) of providers reported receiving WVP training when newly hired or as recurrent training. On average, providers rated the quality of their training as 5.7 (1=poor to 10=excellent). Among all providers, there was an overall rate of 17.1 violent events per 1,000 visit-hours. Conclusion: Efforts to increase the number of home health care workers who receive WVP training and to improve training quality are needed. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Delivery Of Health Care Health Care Facilities Workforce And Services Health Personnel Occupational Health Safety Staff Development Violence Workplace
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Workplace Violence Prevention Health-care Health-care-personnel Health-services Health Care Provider Home Health Hospice Medical-care Medical-personnel Training Violence Violence-prevention Work-environment Workers

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• ISSN:
  0271-3586
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  California ; Iowa ; North Carolina ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 7 ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  23-30
• Volume:
  59
• Issue:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20046950
• Citation:
  Am J Ind Med 2016 Jan; 59(1):23-30
• Contact Point Address:
  Catherine J. Vladutiu, PhD, Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 3018 Old Clinic Building, CB#7181, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7181
• Email:
  cvladutiu@unc.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2016
• Performing Organization:
  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20060901
• Source Full Name:
  American Journal of Industrial Medicine
• End Date:
  20100831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:51a1d03d3740502ceaa80af8464f0481f3cad0dbe60b5e25ecc8a7f955522d33f9a6bfb0496ffb83d30c4e0dcb6797a7db03d9a1c35d6a784f12c5363bde2393
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/202204/cdc_202204_DS1.pdf
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