THE PERCEPTION OF VIOLENCE OF HEALTH SECTOR WORKERS: A SAMPLE OF ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY ISTANBUL MEDICAL FACULTY

Year 2017, Volume: 6 Issue: 1, 213 - 240, 09.08.2017

Levent Şahin , MEHMET Güler , Ekrem Aydın

Abstract

This study focused on the violence in health industry which is a topic
that doesn’t have many academical study, lecture, activity report, Project or
graduate thesis on. The main aim of the study is to measure the violence
tendency of the health workers and encountered violence types of the health
workers, also to estimate the main causes of the violence and trying to measure
the demographical and social structures of the people carrying out the violence
acts.

This measurement is being done among the employees of the İstanbul
University İstanbul Medical Faculty, the oldest medical Faculty in Turkey, by a
perception violence survey. The survey results were interpreted by the
frequency analysis method. Those, the method used for the interpreting the
results and the target group that the surver was done on increase the
importance of the study.

As a result of the study, it was seen that violence in the health
industry increased as results of the delays in health services and dissatisfaction
of people from the health services. The other general results of the study are
those; violence by applied generally not by the patients but by the relatives
of the patients, generally by the low educated males, all over the hospital,  generally in daytime working hours as verbal
insults.

Keywords

Violence, Healtcare Workers, Sence of Violence

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