Role of turnover, downsizing, overtime and night shifts on workplace violence against healthcare workers: a seven-year ecological study

Table 2 Associations between ward type, percentage of women, median age,听hospital seniority, and work organisational factors with the rates of workplace violence episodes, by study years

听	2016-2020^a		2022^b		2016鈥�2020, 2022^c
听	RR	95% CI	RR	95% CI	RR	95% CI
Ward type 鈥� ED vs. Other wards	5.12	1.42鈥�18.39	19.67	2.95鈥�131.18	8.28	2.90鈥�23.65
Ward type 鈥� Psychiatric vs. Other wards	20.86	5.18鈥�84.02	5.44	1.32鈥�22.50	15.95	4.95鈥�51.43
Percentage of women	1.19	0.68鈥�2.10	0.51	0.28鈥�0.95	0.90	0.59鈥�1.38
Median age	1.77	0.87鈥�3.58	1.33	0.53鈥�3.36	1.51	0.84鈥�2.70
Median hospital seniority	0.51	0.27鈥�0.97	0.85	0.32鈥�2.24	0.61	0.35鈥�1.08
Turnover	1.46	1.17鈥�1.83	1.05	0.44鈥�2.50	1.47	1.23鈥�1.75
Downsizing	1.09	0.90鈥�1.33	1.30	0.42鈥�4.06	1.12	1.00鈥�1.24
Weekly overtime	0.71	0.42鈥�1.21	0.59	0.23鈥�1.52	0.73	0.53鈥�1.02
Night shift scheduling	1.03	0.44鈥�2.37	1.00	0.31鈥�3.28	0.97	0.49鈥�1.93
Period 鈥� 2022 vs. 2016鈥�2020	-	-	-	-	2.76	1.43鈥�5.30

Note. Coefficients represent change in WPV rates for 1 SD increase from the year-specific mean. All coefficients are mutually adjusted. Abbreviations: WPV: Workplace Violence; RR: Rate ratio; CI: Confidence interval; ED: Emergency Department
^an鈥�=鈥�1150 ward-year observations, 224 WPV episodes, WPV rate: 1.04 (95%CI 1.23鈥�1.60) per 100 active workers per year
^bn鈥�=鈥�231 ward-year observations, 113 WPV episodes, WPV rate: 3.48 (95%CI: 2.90鈥�4.17) per 100 active workers per year
^cn鈥�=鈥�1381 ward-year observations, 337 WPV episodes, WPV rate: 1.75 (95%CI: 1.57鈥�1.94) per 100 active workers per year

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