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Workplace violence by specialty among Peruvian medical residents

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  • Wendy Nieto-Gutierrez
  • Carlos J Toro-Huamanchumo
  • Alvaro Taype-Rondan
  • Raúl Timaná-Ruiz
  • Carlos Alva Diaz
  • David Jumpa-Armas
  • Seimer Escobedo-Palza
  • CONAREME Consejo Nacional de Residentado Médico

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Objective: To determine the prevalence of workplace violence among Peruvian medical residents and to evaluate the association between medical specialty and workplace violence per type of aggressor. Methods: This was a cross-sectional secondary analysis that used data from the Peruvian Medical Residents National Survey 2016 (ENMERE-2016). The outcome of interest was workplace violence, including physical and verbal violence, which were categorized according to the perpetrator of violence (patients/relatives and worker-to-worker). Primary exposure was the medical specialty, categorized as clinical, surgical, and other specialties. To evaluate the associations of interest, we estimated adjusted prevalence ratios (PR) with their respective 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) using Poisson regression models with robust variances. Results: A total of 1054 Peruvian medical residents were evaluated. The mean age was 32.6 years and 42.3% were female. Overall 73.4% reported having suffered of workplace violence sometime during the residency, 34.4% reported violence from patients/relatives, and 61.1% reported worker-to-worker violence. Compared with clinical residents, surgical residents had a lower prevalence of violence from patients/relatives (PR: 0.71; 95% CI: 0.59–0.87), but a higher prevalence of worker-to-worker violence (PR: 1.11, 95% CI: 1.01–1.23). Conclusion: Nearly three quarters of medical residents reported having suffered workplace violence sometime during their residency. Compared with clinical residents, surgical residents had lower rates of violence from patients/relatives, but higher rates of worker-to-worker violence; while residents from non-clinical and non-surgical specialties had a lower prevalence of both types of violence.

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  • Wendy Nieto-Gutierrez & Carlos J Toro-Huamanchumo & Alvaro Taype-Rondan & Raúl Timaná-Ruiz & Carlos Alva Diaz & David Jumpa-Armas & Seimer Escobedo-Palza & CONAREME Consejo Nacional de Residentado Méd, 2018. "Workplace violence by specialty among Peruvian medical residents," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 13(11), pages 1-12, November.
  • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0207769
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0207769
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