This is the first dedicated study on how verbal violence is strategically and instrumentally used in social movements. Its primary objective is to contribute to the emerging debate on protest ...violence. Its secondary objective is to enrich the interdisciplinary field of swearing research by identifying 'political swearing.' Based on data on Hong Kong's Anti-Extradition Movement, I identify four major instrumental uses of political swearing: attacking enemies of the movement, mobilization and politicization, identity-building, and 'personal political emotion work.' I find that political swearing can directly hurt people and indirectly do so by initiating violent enchainment processes. I also find that political verbal violence yields instrumental utility for social movements. This study's data include in-depth interviews with 30 informants, documentary and video data, and participant observation.
Workplace violence in the health sector is one of the common problems of both developed and developing countries. The aim of this study is to investigate the causes of violence against doctors in the ...health sector and to evaluate the effect of violence on burnout.
The questionnaire forms were delivered to doctors working in Ordu via internet between 01.03.2018 and 31.03.2018. Preliminary questionnaire form consisting of 20 questions and Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) were used in the study.
It was observed that the scores of emotional exhaustion and depersonalization were statistically significantly higher in physicians who were subjected to verbal and physical violence (p < 0.05). On the other hand, increase in emotional exhaustion and depersonalization scores and decrease in personal achievement scores were found to be statistically significant in those exposed to psychological violence (p < 0.05).
It was found that doctors who were exposed to violence at work were exposed to verbal and psychological violence more than physical violence and especially psychological violence had a significant negative effect on burnout.
•Workplace violence in health sector is one of the common problems.•The concept of burnout is a decrease in success, depersonalization and a decrease in business interest.•Doctors are exposed to verbal, physical and psychological violence in the workplace.•The promotion of workers' rights and public education is important in preventing violence in the workplace.
Among the most important characteristics in the study of the opposite pole of politeness is, according to Blas Arroyo (2010), the observation that both the character and degree of impoliteness ...behavior in interpersonal relationships are closely related to the contexts in which they operate, whether they are individual, cultural or institutional. The aim of this paper is to analyze impoliteness in virtual contexts with special reference to aggressive, violent and discriminatory discourse that appears in three news sites on Facebook. For the analysis of the impoliteness we have selected a corpus constituted by a total of 225 opinions that appear in Aristegui Noticias, Animal Político and Sin Embargo MX, with reference to the discriminatory expressions of three public officials towards indigenous people in Mexico in 2014, 2015 and 2016. We start here with the distinction between the concepts of impoliteness, aggressiveness and verbal violence exposed in Fuentes and Alcaide (2008). For these authors, the relationship of impoliteness with aggressiveness and verbal violence lies in the type of strategies used to carry it out, since, in reality, many of these impoliteness strategies can be considered as aggressive and even as violent. The results obtained allow us to conclude that aggressiveness, discrimination and verbal violence are actively manifested in the selected virtual context and damage the image of the protagonists of the news, of the indigenous people and also of other users.
Aim
To test a model examining the impact of verbal violence against new nurses on their turnover intention and the mediating effects of emotional reaction and burnout based on affective events ...theory.
Background
In Korea, turnover rate of nurses, especially new nurses, is at a serious level. It is important to verify the paths by which nurses reach a turnover intention after experiencing verbal violence, which is the most common form of workplace violence. In particular, research on new nurses who are vulnerable to exposure to verbal violence and have a high turnover rate is insufficient.
Methods
Data were collected using time‐lagged online surveys from 212 Korean new nurses. Structural equation modelling was used to test the hypothesized model.
Results
The level of the turnover intention of new nurses was almost 4 out of 5. Verbal violence not only has a direct effect on turnover intention but also has an indirect effect through burnout. Emotional reactions and burnout sequentially mediated the relationship between verbal violence and turnover intention; these variables explained approximately 57% of turnover intention.
Conclusions
To decrease negative emotional reactions and burnout caused by verbal violence may benefit to reduction of turnover intention of new nurses.
Implications for Nursing Management
Our finding highlight the critical need for new nurses' violence interventions that focus on emotional reactions and burnout, and thereby improving desirable patient–co‐worker–nurse relationships and quality of life for new nurses.
Introduction: Various media are reporting that violence against doctors in country is increasing. Due to this, doctors are stressed out in their profession. The present study was conducted with ...objectives to find out the prevalence of verbal and physical violence against doctors and to identify the perceived aggravating factors associated with workplace violence. Materials and Methods: It was a cross-sectional study. A total of 117 doctors participated in the study from different cities of Gujarat. The study was conducted in the year 2017. Results: The mean age of the study participants was 44.11 ± 11.77 years. Ninety-eight (83.8%) participants were male and 19 (16.2%) were female. One hundred and ten (94.02%) study participants believed that violence against health-care staff is a serious issue in the current scenario. More than two-third (89.74%) of the participants perceived increases in violence in the past few decades. Sixty-five (55.56%) study participants had experienced verbal violence. Five (4.27%) study participants had experienced physical violence. One hundred and eleven (94.87%) study participants believed that hospital securities are given less importance. Almost all the (93.16%) study participants assumed that violence occurs due to absence of law. Conclusion: The study concludes that violence on doctors' has increased in the last few years in India. Verbal violence was experienced by more than 50% of the participants. The common determinants of violence against doctor were poor hospital security, absence of proper law, unrealistic expectation from patients and relatives, overburdened hospital, low literacy, and poor communication skills among doctors.
Abstract
Aim
To define the missed care experiences of nurses exposed to verbal violence from patients.
Background
Verbal violence takes the first place among the types of violence that nurses face in ...healthcare settings. This can cause negative emotional and physical responses in nurses and issues in patient and nurse interaction. As a result, it may lead to missed nursing care, defined as skipped, postponed or incomplete care during the patient's care.
Methods
This is a phenomenological study. The study sample included 16 nurses working in inpatient clinics who reported experiencing verbal violence at least once in Turkey. The study was conducted between January and February 2022 with institutional permission and ethics committee approval (09/12/2021‐2021/357). A semi‐structured interview method was used to collect data. The information gathered from the interviews underwent thematic analysis using an inductive approach. The ‘Consolidated Criteria for Reporting Qualitative Research (COREQ)’ was used to report this qualitative study based on a comprehensive protocol.
Results
The types of verbal violence most frequently faced by nurses were determined as swearing, insulting, shouting and threats. Study findings were classified into three main themes: (i) response to verbal violence, (ii) missed nursing care experiences and (iii) suggestions to cope with verbal violence. The most felt emotions in the face of verbal violence were feeling sad, unsafe and worthless. Nurses common behaviours, in response to verbal abuse were ignoring, getting used to, and wishing to get away. The examples of missed care included using non‐therapeutic communication, postponing care or withdrawing from care.
Conclusion
Verbal violence caused negative emotional and behavioural responses in nurses, which, in turn, negatively affected the nurse–patient interaction. These findings mean that verbal violence may pave the way for missed nursing care.
Implications for nursing policy
According to these findings, an uninterrupted nursing care process needs to focus on preventive measures against verbal violence and increase the administrative and legal support offered to nurses.
Global studies on adolescent victims of violence require serious attention due to the possibility that underreported cases may be higher than official records indicate. Since Indonesia expects to ...witness a demographic bonus, extensive research is needed to strengthen early detection, case handling, and prevention. Here, we report the outcomes of a survey on physical, verbal, and sexual violence experienced by adolescents in West Java, an Indonesian province inhabited by 18% of the country's total population.
We conducted a cross-sectional survey in 2017 using the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN) Child Abuse Screening Tool for Children (ICAST-C) questionnaire for detecting child abuse; an expert panel translated, simplified, and validated it based on a theoretical framework that combines paediatrics, public health, and medicolegal perspectives. We aimed to cover a large sample size and explore three types of violence (physical, verbal, and sexual) that have high evidentiary value in the forensic context. The respondents were adolescents in the first and second grades of middle school (12 to 14 years old) and high school (15 to 17 years old) in seven cities/municipalities in the province, selected through several stages of simple random sampling (N = 3452). We analysed the samples through univariate (percentage), odds ratio (OR), comparison, correlation, and correspondence analyses.
The results showed that 78.7% of the adolescents experienced violence in 2017, comprising those who encountered at least one incidence of physical violence (43.1%), verbal violence (12.2%), and sexual violence (4.5%). Data overlap includes 14.3% who experienced one type of violence in 2017, 7.4% who experienced two forms of violence, and 1.4% who underwent all three kinds of violence. The offenders were mainly adolescents across all types of violence, except for being forced to engage in sexual intercourse. Several victims of sexual violence did not state who the offenders were. Further, several characteristics showed a higher chance of experiencing violence than other characteristics, especially for adolescents who were still in middle school and those who lived only with their mothers. Correspondence analysis suggested subtle differences between characteristics.
We expect this study to help identify risk and protective factors that are essential to strengthening early detection efforts, decisive medicolegal examinations, case handling, and policy-making.
Workplace violence (WPV) has been defined as, "violent acts including physical assault and threats of assault directed toward personnel at work or on duty". Healthcare staff are at highest risk of ...WPV among the professionals and it is more common among the critical care services. Prevalence of WPV among doctors all over the world is around 56-80% and in Indian scenario, it is around 40.8-75%. There is scarcity of studies on WPV among doctors from India. To our knowledge, this is the first of its kind survey conducted to know about the incidence of WPV amongst critical care physicians in India.
This survey was conducted after taking due ethical committee clearance amongst critical care physicians attending a critical care conference. The purpose of the study was informed to the participants and a pretested, self-administered, semi-structured questionnaire was distributed among them for their voluntary and anonymous response.
Out of 160 delegates who were given the questionnaire, 118 responses were collected and their forms were analyzed. Maximum responses (84%) received were of age group 20-40 years. Seventy-two percent respondents experienced WPV during their work hours. Most common type of violence reported was verbal violence (67%). Sixty-five percent respondents reported that poor communication was the leading cause of WPV. Due to WPV, most of the respondents (60%) had to change their place and pattern of work. Proper communication (76%) was the most common measure among multiple measures suggested by respondents for avoiding WPV. Eighty-three (98%) respondents opined that conflict management should be part of regular curriculum in medical education.
Improving the communication skills amongst critical care physicians, teaching doctors about conflict management in their regular curriculum of medical education, spreading awareness in public about patient rights and taking initiatives in propagating an idea to "Fight against the diseases and not against the doctors" are the key measures to combat WPV.
Kumar NS, Munta K, Kumar JR, Rao SM, Dnyaneshwar M, Harde Y. A Survey on Workplace Violence Experienced by Critical Care Physicians. Indian J Crit Care Med 2019;23(7):295-301.
This multi-group path analysis study investigated the effects of verbal abuse (suspicion of infection and disrespect) on difficulties in work performance according to the workplace quarantine ...measures of visiting nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 262 visiting nurses in Korea completed the online questionnaire between 10 October and 30 November 2020, and their data were included in the final analysis. The study found that experiences of verbal abuse mediated fear and anxiety to affect difficulties in work performance. In the path model of the group with a high level of workplace quarantine measures, experiences of verbal abuse (suspicion of infection and disrespect) did not directly affect fear. The opposite was true for the group with low levels of workplace quarantine measures. The implications for the field are that the following is required: heightened awareness of verbal abuse; workplace quarantine policies; and mental health management systems and intervention programs to detect the early fear and anxiety of visiting nurses.
Aims: This study aimed at examining coach-athlete violence based on the retrospective reports of adults who had been athletes as children and adolescents; predict variables that contribute to the ...existence of such violence; describe difficulties that the participants encountered as young athletes following such violence; and reveal the outcomes of such violence on their emotions and behaviors, in the past and present. Methodology: The applied mixed methods comprised quantitative self-reporting questionnaires and qualitative interviews. The former included 440 participants (mean age 27.6) who had trained for at least one year in a sports union youth department; the latter included 14 participants (aged 23–37). These competitive athletes came from eight branches of sports. The interviews were analyzed based on the Narrative Approach. Results: According to the quantitative study, all participants had experienced coach violence at least once during their career, mainly psychological violence and neglect, followed by physical violence. Sexual violence was least reported. The age of their retirement from sports and the number of coaches that they had had were significant predictors of violence. Thematic analysis of the qualitative interviews resulted in six types of coach-athlete violence: (1) psychological violence; (2) verbal violence; (3) starvation and food fattening; (4) non-proportional punishing; (5) physical violence; and (6) sexual violence. Conclusions: It is vital that coach-athlete violence is addressed in public discourse, that the topic of young athletes’ safety is introduced into coaching education, and that a position holder is nominated to be in charge of such safety in all sports organizations.
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