Table 5 The relationship between demographic variables and violence in the workplace in population under study
Variable | Violence in the workplace | P value* | |||
Yes (%) | No (%) | ||||
Sex | Male | 94 (52.8) | 14 (53.8) | 0.611 | |
Female | 84 (47.2) | 10 (41.2) | |||
Education | Academic | 165 (92.7) | 21 (87.5) | 0.376 | |
Non-academic | 13 (7.3) | 3 (12.5) | |||
Occupational row | Nurse or medical student | 108 (60.7) | 20 (83.3) | 0.031 | |
Doctor | 70 (39.3) | 4 (16.7) | |||
Work experience | ≤ 10 | 148 (83.1) | 21 (87.5) | 0.588 | |
> 10 | 30 (61.9) | 3 (12.5) | |||
Work experience in the emergency | ≤ 10 | 169 (94.9) | 24 (100) | 0.260 | |
> 10 | 9 (5.1) | 0 (0.0) | |||
Employment status | Official | 138 (77.5) | 20 (83.3) | 0.518 | |
Unofficial | 40 (22.5) | 4 (16.7) | |||
Shift work | Fixed | 36 (20.2) | 9 (37.5) | 0.046 | |
Rotational | 142 (79.8) | 15 (62.5) | |||
Number of patients cared for per shift | < 10 | 16 (66.7) | 93 (52.2) | 0.092 | |
10–15 | 1 (4.2) | 42 (23.6) | |||
> 15 | 7 (29.2) | 43 (24.2) | |||
Quantitative variable | N | Mean | S.D | P value** | |
Age (year) | Yes | 178 | 28.27 | 6.67 | 0.741 |
No | 24 | 27.79 | 7.15 | ||