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Prevalence of Verbal Abuse Among Doctors in Tertiary Care Hospital

INTRODUCTION: Verbal abuse is the act of forcefully criticizing, insulting or denouncing another person. Verbal abuse can be devastating to doctors and may cause long lasting emotional and psychological damage. This study aims to find the prevalence of verbal abuse among doctors in tertiary care hos...

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Autores principales: Silwal, Kalpana, Joshi, Sarala
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Journal of the Nepal Medical Association 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7580410/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32335657
http://dx.doi.org/10.31729/jnma.4762
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description INTRODUCTION: Verbal abuse is the act of forcefully criticizing, insulting or denouncing another person. Verbal abuse can be devastating to doctors and may cause long lasting emotional and psychological damage. This study aims to find the prevalence of verbal abuse among doctors in tertiary care hospital. METHODS: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among doctors in a tertiary care hospitals, Chitwan from January to July, 2019 after taking ethical approval. Convenience sampling was done. Self administered questionnaire was distributed and data was collected. Point estimate at 95% CI was done for binary data along with frequency and proportion. Data were entered and calculations were done in Microsoft excel. RESULTS: Verbal abuse was found among 80 (33.3%) respondents at 95% Confidence Interval (27.51-39.09%) and most 51 (63.8%) of perpetrators were relatives of the patients. Most 38 (47.5%) of the doctors were often worried in workplace. Incident of the verbal abuse was more 35 (43.6%) in morning and least 14 (17.4%) in night. Most 22 (27.5%) of the doctors did not take any action for incident although most 42 (52.5 %) of the doctors were encouraged by colleagues to take action. CONCLUSIONS: Prevalence of verbral abuse among the doctors were found out to be similar as the previous studies conducted in similar settings. This study has shown that doctors were frequently verbal abused by patient's relatives and were abused mostly in morning shift and were often worried in workplace.
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spelling pubmed-75804102020-11-30 Prevalence of Verbal Abuse Among Doctors in Tertiary Care Hospital Silwal, Kalpana Joshi, Sarala JNMA J Nepal Med Assoc Original Article INTRODUCTION: Verbal abuse is the act of forcefully criticizing, insulting or denouncing another person. Verbal abuse can be devastating to doctors and may cause long lasting emotional and psychological damage. This study aims to find the prevalence of verbal abuse among doctors in tertiary care hospital. METHODS: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among doctors in a tertiary care hospitals, Chitwan from January to July, 2019 after taking ethical approval. Convenience sampling was done. Self administered questionnaire was distributed and data was collected. Point estimate at 95% CI was done for binary data along with frequency and proportion. Data were entered and calculations were done in Microsoft excel. RESULTS: Verbal abuse was found among 80 (33.3%) respondents at 95% Confidence Interval (27.51-39.09%) and most 51 (63.8%) of perpetrators were relatives of the patients. Most 38 (47.5%) of the doctors were often worried in workplace. Incident of the verbal abuse was more 35 (43.6%) in morning and least 14 (17.4%) in night. Most 22 (27.5%) of the doctors did not take any action for incident although most 42 (52.5 %) of the doctors were encouraged by colleagues to take action. CONCLUSIONS: Prevalence of verbral abuse among the doctors were found out to be similar as the previous studies conducted in similar settings. This study has shown that doctors were frequently verbal abused by patient's relatives and were abused mostly in morning shift and were often worried in workplace. Journal of the Nepal Medical Association 2019 2019-12-31 /pmc/articles/PMC7580410/ /pubmed/32335657 http://dx.doi.org/10.31729/jnma.4762 Text en © The Author(s) 2018. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7580410/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32335657
http://dx.doi.org/10.31729/jnma.4762
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