NCT05796323

Perceptions and Prevalence of Workplace Violence in Healthcare

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 3,000 (actual)
• Sponsor: Methodist Health System · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 100 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Workplace violence includes physical and verbal aggression as well as threatening behavior. All types of workplace violence incidents in health care are often under-reported, especially if there is no lasting physical injury.

Detailed description

Research reveals that healthcare workers are three times more likely to experience workplace violence than any other occupation. The first step toward reducing the occurrence of violence is to understand the perceptions and prevalence of workplace violence.

Conditions

• Violence

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	No intervention.	The subjects will complete a survey related to workplace violance.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-03-16
• Primary completion: 2025-07-29
• Completion: 2025-07-29
• First posted: 2023-04-03
• Last updated: 2026-03-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States