Correlation between Workplace Violence, Work Stress, and Job Satisfaction among psychiatric Nursing staff | ||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||
| Article 112, Volume 12, Issue 4, December 2021, Pages 1713-1730 PDF (477.4 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2021.242101 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Neamat Mohamed Ali; Hoda Sayed Mohamed | ||
| Lecturers of psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Ain Shams University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: Workplace violence is a complex phenomenon that must be explored in different psychiatric nursing environments and settings, as it is leading to increased work stressors and reduced job satisfaction. Aim: The current study aimed to assess the correlation between workplace violence, work stress, and job satisfaction among psychiatric nursing staff. Design: A descriptive correlational design was used in this study. Setting: The current study was conducted in Al Abbassia mental health hospital. Sample: A cross-sectional sample of 106 out of 140 psychiatric nurses was obtained in this study. Tools for data collection include 1) Nurse’s Interviewing Questionnaire to assess the demographic characteristics of nurse’s understudy, 2) Workplace Violence in Healthcare Questionnaire), 3) The Perceived Stress Scale, and 4) Satisfaction of Employee in Healthcare Scale. Results: The results of the present study showed that the majority of psychiatric nurses understudy (87.7%) were exposed to workplace violence, and 70.8% of them had a moderate level of perceived stress. In addition, more than half of the nurse’s understudy (50.9%) were professionally satisfied and only more than one-third of them (36.8%), were professionally unsatisfied. Meanwhile, Moreover, there was a positive statistically significant correlation between the total score of workplace violence, the total score of perceived stress, and the total score of job satisfaction among psychiatric nursing staff understudy (P<0.001**). Conclusions: most nurses working with psychiatric patients are exposed to workplace violence mostly verbal and physical violence. Also, the majority of psychiatric nursing staff understudy had a moderate level of work stress and more than one-third of them were professional unsatisfied. This illustrated that workplace violence leads to increased perceived work stress and minimizes job satisfaction among psychiatric nursing staff understudy Recommendations: This study recommends developing and implementing a violence prevention program for psychiatric nursing staff to improve their professional safety and security, minimize their level of job perceived stress, and enhance their job satisfaction. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Workplace Violence; Perceived Work Stress; Job Satisfaction; Psychiatric nursing staff | ||
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