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

Table 4 Association of incidence of violence and interventions done with the year of practice in emergency medicine

Variable	Category	Years of practice in Emergency Medicine			χ2	p
Variable	Category	5 years or less	6 to 20 years	21 to 30 years	χ2	p
Physical attack in the workplace (last 12 months)	No	52	27	2	1.766^a	0.779
Physical attack in the workplace (last 12 months)	Yes	11	3	0
Verbal attack in the workplace (last 12 months)	No	15a	4a	2b	8.515	0.014
Verbal attack in the workplace (last 12 months)	Yes	49a	26a	0b
Frequency of physical or verbal violence	Once	9a	3a	0a	19.912	0.011
	2 to 3 times	18a	10a	0a
	4 to 5 times	12a	3a	0a
	More than 5 times	16a	13a	0a
	Never	9a	1a	2b
Location of incident	Outside the hospital	10a	1a	2b	16.853	0.002
	Inside the hospital	52a	29a	0b
	Both inside and outside the hospital	2a	0a	0a
Knowledge of procedure for reporting incidence in workplace	No	6	2	0	2.800	0.592
	Yes	50	27	2
	I don’t know	8	1	0
Reporting of violence	No, because I am afraid of negative consequences	2	4	0	10.841	0.211
	No, because I feel reporting the violence incidence is useless	17	11	0
	No, because I don’t know whom to report	2	0	0
	Other reasons	15	2	0
	Yes	28	13	2

Post-hoc test used was Bonferroni adjustment. Data assigned with different letters indicate significant difference of column proportions at α = 0.05

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