Violence Applied to Health Employees: An Example of a Private Medical Center

The purpose of this study is determining the factors associated with violence and the incidence of violence of personnel working in the private health institution. In this study “The Violent Incident Form (VIF)” developed by Arnetz (1998) is used as a data collection tool. The data obtained from the research is transferred to the SPSS statistical package program and is analyzed by identifying statistical methods such as frequency, percentage, arithmetic mean and standard deviation. Population of the study is all workers of a private health institution located in Ankara. Research was carried out in the period of May 2012. In the result of the research a total of 92 (81 %) questionnaire was returned. The 24.2 % percent of the health workers who responded the questionnaire was found to be exposed to violence. It is found that 28.6 % of the workers was subject to violence 5 times or more; 45.5 % was exposed to violence by patient; the majority of the attackers was males (76.2 %) and most of the attacks was in the consultant room with the rate of 45.5 %. The workers, exposed to violence, defined the type of violence in case it was verbally or by an attack. It was found that there was neither an administrative nor a legal procedure for the subjects of the violence