Prevalence study on the physical violence incident of psychiatry nurses suffering in working place

Objective To explore the violence form of psychiatry nurses suffering in working place and mental status so as to provide basis for clinical nurses and managers. Methods The investigation method of cluster sampling was used to investigate the violence form of psychiatry nurses suffering from physical violence in working place and mental status so as to provide basis for clinical nurses and managers in this hospital within one year.χ2and one-way analysis of variance to have statistical analysis. Results Only 9.9% of psychiatry nurses grasped the prevention technique from violence.Compared with male nurses in psychiatry, female psychiatry nurses were easier to suffer from violence (χ2=9.611). In the aspects of physical attack (χ2=4.085), patient or family destruction and threat (χ2=5.172), the difference had statistical significance(P 0.05). Conclusions Psychiatry nurses are lack of knowledge to violent attach in the working place.The majority of nurses suffered from violence in working place and had undesirable mental status (especially for female nurses), which provides some basis for the managers to make the corresponding countermeasures and reduce violence in the working place. Key words: Workplace violence; Psychiatric; Nurses