IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jijerp/v17y2020i8p2747-d346156.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Workplace Violence and Its Effects on Burnout and Secondary Traumatic Stress among Mental Healthcare Nurses in Japan

Author

Listed:
  • Yudai Kobayashi

    (Department of Neuropsychiatry, Kurume University School of Medicine, Asahi-machi 67, Kurume 830-0011, Japan)

  • Misari Oe

    (Department of Neuropsychiatry, Kurume University School of Medicine, Asahi-machi 67, Kurume 830-0011, Japan)

  • Tetsuya Ishida

    (Department of Neuropsychiatry, Kurume University School of Medicine, Asahi-machi 67, Kurume 830-0011, Japan)

  • Michiko Matsuoka

    (Department of Neuropsychiatry, Kurume University School of Medicine, Asahi-machi 67, Kurume 830-0011, Japan)

  • Hiromi Chiba

    (Department of Neuropsychiatry, Kurume University School of Medicine, Asahi-machi 67, Kurume 830-0011, Japan)

  • Naohisa Uchimura

    (Department of Neuropsychiatry, Kurume University School of Medicine, Asahi-machi 67, Kurume 830-0011, Japan)

Abstract

Workplace violence (WPV) in healthcare settings has drawn attention for over 20 years, yet few studies have investigated the association between WPV and psychological consequences. Here, we used a cross-sectional design to investigate (1) the 12-month prevalence of workplace violence (WPV), (2) the characteristics of WPV, and (3) the relationship between WPV and burnout/secondary traumatic stress among 599 mental healthcare nurses (including assistant nurses) from eight hospitals. Over 40% of the respondents had experienced WPV within the past 12 months. A multivariate logistic regression analysis indicated that occupation and burnout were each significantly related to WPV. Secondary traumatic stress was not related to WPV. Our results suggest that WPV may be a long-lasting and/or cumulative stressor rather than a brief, extreme horror experience and may reflect specific characteristics of psychological effects in psychiatric wards. A longitudinal study measuring the severity and frequency of WPV, work- and non-work-related stressors, risk factors, and protective factors is needed, as is the development of a program that helps reduce the psychological burden of mental healthcare nurses due to WPV.

Suggested Citation

  • Yudai Kobayashi & Misari Oe & Tetsuya Ishida & Michiko Matsuoka & Hiromi Chiba & Naohisa Uchimura, 2020. "Workplace Violence and Its Effects on Burnout and Secondary Traumatic Stress among Mental Healthcare Nurses in Japan," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(8), pages 1-12, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:17:y:2020:i:8:p:2747-:d:346156
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/8/2747/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/8/2747/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Santiago Gascon & Michael P Leiter & Eva Andrés & Miguel A Santed & Joao P Pereira & María J Cunha & Agustín Albesa & Jesus Montero‐Marín & Javier García‐Campayo & Begoña Martínez‐Jarreta, 2013. "The role of aggressions suffered by healthcare workers as predictors of burnout," Journal of Clinical Nursing, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 22(21-22), pages 3120-3129, November.
    2. repec:ilo:ilowps:384511 is not listed on IDEAS
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Jose Miguel Giménez Lozano & Juan Pedro Martínez Ramón & Francisco Manuel Morales Rodríguez, 2021. "Doctors and Nurses: A Systematic Review of the Risk and Protective Factors in Workplace Violence and Burnout," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(6), pages 1-19, March.
    2. Yun-Ping Lu & Bih-O Lee & Chih-Kuang Liu & Ke-Hsin Chueh, 2022. "Exploring the Workplace Bullying of Indonesian Caregivers and Its Influencing Factors in Taiwan," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(8), pages 1-10, April.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Santiago Ramírez-Elvira & José L. Romero-Béjar & Nora Suleiman-Martos & José L. Gómez-Urquiza & Carolina Monsalve-Reyes & Guillermo A. Cañadas-De la Fuente & Luis Albendín-García, 2021. "Prevalence, Risk Factors and Burnout Levels in Intensive Care Unit Nurses: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(21), pages 1-12, October.
    2. Yu‐fang Guo & Yuan‐hui Luo & Louisa Lam & Wendy Cross & Virginia Plummer & Jing‐ping Zhang, 2018. "Burnout and its association with resilience in nurses: A cross‐sectional study," Journal of Clinical Nursing, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 27(1-2), pages 441-449, January.
    3. Lucyna Gieniusz-Wojczyk & Józefa Dąbek & Halina Kulik, 2021. "Risky Behaviour among Nurses in Poland: An Analysis of Nurses’ Physical Condition, Mental Health, and Resilience," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(4), pages 1-12, February.
    4. Jakub Lickiewicz & Paweł Jagielski & Patricia Paulsen Hughes & Marta Makara-Studzińska, 2020. "The Gender-Related Impact of a Violence Management Training Program on Medical School Students—Preliminary Results," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(19), pages 1-9, September.
    5. Yi-Lu Li & Rui-Qi Li & Dan Qiu & Shui-Yuan Xiao, 2020. "Prevalence of Workplace Physical Violence against Health Care Professionals by Patients and Visitors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(1), pages 1-19, January.
    6. Virve Pekurinen & Laura Willman & Marianna Virtanen & Mika Kivimäki & Jussi Vahtera & Maritta Välimäki, 2017. "Patient Aggression and the Wellbeing of Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Survey Study in Psychiatric and Non-Psychiatric Settings," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 14(10), pages 1-14, October.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:17:y:2020:i:8:p:2747-:d:346156. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.