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Violence against metropolitan bus drivers and fare collectors in Brazil
OBJECTIVE: To analyze the correlation between sociodemographic factors and working conditions of bus workers in a metropolitan area and violence against them. METHODS: This cross-sectional study used a nonprobabilistic sample estimated according to the number of workers employed in bus companies loc...
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Faculdade de Saúde Pública da Universidade de São Paulo
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4386560/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25741657 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0034-8910.2015049005380 |
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author | Assunção, Ada Ávila de Medeiros, Adriane Mesquita |
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description | OBJECTIVE: To analyze the correlation between sociodemographic factors and working conditions of bus workers in a metropolitan area and violence against them. METHODS: This cross-sectional study used a nonprobabilistic sample estimated according to the number of workers employed in bus companies located in three cities in the Belo Horizonte metropolitan region in 2012 (N = 17,470). Face-to-face interviews were conducted using a digital questionnaire. The factors associated with violence were analyzed in two stages using Poisson regression, according to each level. The magnitude of the association was evaluated using prevalence ratios with robust variance and a statistical significance of 5%, and 95% confidence intervals were obtained. RESULTS: The study sample comprised 782 drivers and 691 fare collectors; 45.0% participants reported at least one act of violence in the workplace in the last 12 months, with passengers being predominantly responsible. The age of the bus workers was inversely associated with violence. Chronic diseases, sickness absenteeism, and working conditions were also associated with violence. CONCLUSIONS: The findings on the correlation between violence and working conditions are essential for implementing prevention strategies by transportation service managers. |
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spelling | pubmed-43865602015-04-08 Violence against metropolitan bus drivers and fare collectors in Brazil Assunção, Ada Ávila de Medeiros, Adriane Mesquita Rev Saude Publica Original Articles OBJECTIVE: To analyze the correlation between sociodemographic factors and working conditions of bus workers in a metropolitan area and violence against them. METHODS: This cross-sectional study used a nonprobabilistic sample estimated according to the number of workers employed in bus companies located in three cities in the Belo Horizonte metropolitan region in 2012 (N = 17,470). Face-to-face interviews were conducted using a digital questionnaire. The factors associated with violence were analyzed in two stages using Poisson regression, according to each level. The magnitude of the association was evaluated using prevalence ratios with robust variance and a statistical significance of 5%, and 95% confidence intervals were obtained. RESULTS: The study sample comprised 782 drivers and 691 fare collectors; 45.0% participants reported at least one act of violence in the workplace in the last 12 months, with passengers being predominantly responsible. The age of the bus workers was inversely associated with violence. Chronic diseases, sickness absenteeism, and working conditions were also associated with violence. CONCLUSIONS: The findings on the correlation between violence and working conditions are essential for implementing prevention strategies by transportation service managers. Faculdade de Saúde Pública da Universidade de São Paulo 2015-02-19 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4386560/ /pubmed/25741657 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0034-8910.2015049005380 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Articles Assunção, Ada Ávila de Medeiros, Adriane Mesquita Violence against metropolitan bus drivers and fare collectors in Brazil |
title | Violence against metropolitan bus drivers and fare collectors in Brazil |
title_full | Violence against metropolitan bus drivers and fare collectors in Brazil |
title_fullStr | Violence against metropolitan bus drivers and fare collectors in Brazil |
title_full_unstemmed | Violence against metropolitan bus drivers and fare collectors in Brazil |
title_short | Violence against metropolitan bus drivers and fare collectors in Brazil |
title_sort | violence against metropolitan bus drivers and fare collectors in brazil |
topic | Original Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4386560/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25741657 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0034-8910.2015049005380 |
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