Workplace violence toward emergency medicine physicians in the hospitals of Taif city, Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional survey

Table 3 Association of incidence of violence and interventions done with the type of physicians

Variable	Category	Type of Physician					χ2	p
Variable	Category	Junior Resident	Senior Resident	Staff Physician	Assistant Consultant	Consultant	χ2	p
Physical attack in the workplace (last 12 months)	No	31	29	13	3	5	10.657	0.222
	Yes	9	0	4	0	1
	Yes, with weapon	0	1	0	0	0
Verbal attack in the workplace (last 12 months)	No	7	7	3	2	2	4.646	0.326
Verbal attack in the workplace (last 12 months)	Yes	33	23	14	1	4
Frequency of physical or verbal violence	Once	7	2	2	0	1	18.640	0.288
	2 to 3 times	12	12	3	0	1
	4 to 5 times	8	3	4	0	0
	More than 5 times	9	9	7	1	3
	Never	4	4	1	2	1
Location of incident	Outside the hospital	4	5	1	2	1	11.543	0.173
	Inside the hospital	34	25	16	1	5
	Both inside and outside the hospital	2	0	0	0	0
Knowledge of procedure for reporting incidence in workplace	No	2a	1a	4a	1a	0a	22.700	0.004
	Yes	30a,b	29b	13a,b	1a	6a,b
	I don’t know	8a,b	0b	0a,b	1a	0a,b
Reporting of violence	No, because I am afraid of negative consequences	1	1	3	0	1	24.490	0.079
	No, because I feel reporting the violence incidence is useless	13	7	5	1	2
	No, because I don’t know whom to report	0	1	0	1	0
	Other reasons	9	5	2	0	1
	Yes	17	16	7	1	2

Post-hoc test used was Bonferroni adjustment. Data assigned with different letters indicate significant difference of column proportions at α = 0.0

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