@article{ref1,
title="Workplace violence by specialty among Peruvian medical residents",
journal="PLoS one",
year="2018",
author="Nieto-Gutierrez, Wendy and Toro-Huamanchumo, Carlos J. and Taype-Rondán, Álvaro and Timaná-Ruiz, Raúl and Alva Diaz, Carlos and Jumpa-Armas, David and Escobedo-Palza, Seimer",
volume="13",
number="11",
pages="e0207769-e0207769",
abstract="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. <br><br>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. <br><br>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). <br><br>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.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1932-6203",
doi="10.1371/journal.pone.0207769",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0207769"
}