Table 2.

Violence characteristics of survey respondents

Violence of any form at workplace	Count (N=5405)	Percentage
Total yes response—self+colleague (N=5405)	3838	71
Yes response—self (N=5405)	2974	55
Yes response—colleague (N=2431)	864	16
No response—self+colleague (N=5405)	1567	29
Form of violence	Count (N=3838)	Percentage
Verbal violence	2751	72
Emotional violence	1591	41
Physical violence	1157	30
Cultural violence	735	19
Sexual violence	315	8
Online/virtual/cyber harassment	263	7
Other	47	1
Type of aggressor	Count (N=3838)	Percentage
More than one type of aggressor	711	19
Colleague	341	9
Patient	453	12
Patient and relative and/or caregiver	594	15
Patient and relative and/or caregiver	1108	29
Supervisor	610	16
Skipped	21	1
Frequency of violence during COVID-19 pandemic	Count (N=3838)	Percentage
Increased	1404	37
About the same	1657	43
Decreased	747	19
Number of violent episodes in past 1 year	Survey respondent— self (N=2974)	Survey respondent— colleague (N=864)
Every day	53 (2%)	10 (1%)
About once a week	269 (9%)	91 (11%)
A few times a week	184 (6%)	46 (5%)
Once or twice a month	746 (25%)	217 (25%)
Once or twice a quarter	655 (22%)	491 (57%)
Once or twice a year	1048 (35%)	0 (0%)