In Sook Lee; Kwang Ok Lee; Hee Sun Kang; Yeon-Hwan Park

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Violent Experiences and Coping among Home Visiting Health Care Workers in Korea: In Sook Lee, Kwang Ok Lee, Hee Sun Kang, Yeon-Hwan Park; Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing 2012;42(1):66-75.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4040/jkan.2012.42.1.66
Published online: February 29, 2012

¹Professor, School of Nursing, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.

²Full-time lecturer, Department of Nursing, Sangmyung University, Cheonan, Korea.

³Associate Professor, School of Medicine, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea.

⁴Associate Professor, School of Nursing, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.

Address reprint requests to: Lee, Kwang Ok. Department of Nursing, Sangmyung University, 31 Sangmyungdae-gil, Dongnam-gu, Cheonan, Chungnam 330-720, Korea. Tel: +82-41-550-5430, Fax: +82-41-550-5545, kolee@smu.ac.kr

• Received: December 20, 2010 • Accepted: February 5, 2012

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Abstract

Purpose
The purpose of this study was to explore violent experiences of home visiting health care workers in Korea.
Methods
This study was a cross-sectional survey. Data were collected using self-report questionnaires from 1,640 health care workers. Data collection was done between September 1, 2009 and June 30, 2010.
Results
Of the respondents, 70.6% had experienced work-related violence. Shouting (51.9%) was the most common verbal violence, followed by verbalizing sexual remarks to the health care workers (19.0%) and touching the hands (16.5%), the most common acts relating to sexual harassment. Of the respondents who had experienced violence, 50.9% told their peers about the incidents. However, the major reasons why they did not report these incidents was due to the fact that they felt it was useless to file reports and that they expected such incidents to occur as part of their job. The majority of the respondents (86.4%) wanted education on how to deal with such violence at work.
Conclusion
The results of this study indicate that efforts should be made to increase awareness and to minimize violence in the workplace. Also, educational programs should be designed to improve knowledge and to prevent workplace violence.
Keywords: Violence; Home visits; Sexual harrassment; Coping behavior

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Table 1

General Characteristics of the Participants (N=1,640)

Table 2

Experience of Violence (multiple responses) (N=1,640)

Table 3

Experience of Violence by General Characteristics (N=1,158)

^*p<.05; ^**p<.01

Table 4

Action Taken after Violence Occurred (N=1158)

Table 5

Reasons for not Reporting the Violence (N=843)

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J Korean Acad Nurs. 2012;42(1):66-75. Published online February 29, 2012

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Violent Experiences and Coping among Home Visiting Health Care Workers in Korea

Table 1

General Characteristics of the Participants (N=1,640)

Table 2

Experience of Violence (multiple responses) (N=1,640)

Table 3

Experience of Violence by General Characteristics (N=1,158)

^*p<.05; ^**p<.01

Table 4

Action Taken after Violence Occurred (N=1158)

Table 5

Reasons for not Reporting the Violence (N=843)

Table 1 General Characteristics of the Participants (N=1,640)

Table 2 Experience of Violence (multiple responses) (N=1,640)

Table 3 Experience of Violence by General Characteristics (N=1,158)

^*p<.05; ^**p<.01

Table 4 Action Taken after Violence Occurred (N=1158)

Table 5 Reasons for not Reporting the Violence (N=843)