Britta E Gynning, Elinor Forsheden Sidoli, Katrina J Blindow, Emma Cedstrand, Erika L Sabbath, Emma Brulin
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Workplace mistreatment of Swedish health care professionals: prevalence and perpetrators across profession, sex, and birth country.
Background: This study explores the prevalence and co-occurrence of workplace mistreatment of nurses and physicians and their perpetrators. We explore the distribution of incivility and identity-based harassment (ethnicity-, gender-based, and/or sexual harassment), combined with sex and birth country in these two professional groups.
Methods: This cross-sectional study draws on survey data, including an analytical sample of 141,237 Swedish nurses and physicians in 2022.
Results: Incivility was the most prevalent mistreatment type, ranging from 28.2% among male physicians to 59.5% among nurses born outside Europe. Identity-based harassment ranged from 18.1% among male physicians to 57.8% among nurses born outside Europe. Incivility stemmed most commonly from internal perpetrators (co-workers), and harassment was more commonly experienced by patients or their relatives.
Conclusions: The mistreatment of healthcare professionals was widespread. Different types of mistreatment often co-occur, but prevalence varies substantially. The protective effect of professional status was dependent on social structures.
期刊介绍:
BMC Health Services Research is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of health services research, including delivery of care, management of health services, assessment of healthcare needs, measurement of outcomes, allocation of healthcare resources, evaluation of different health markets and health services organizations, international comparative analysis of health systems, health economics and the impact of health policies and regulations.