Table 3.

Characteristics and frequency distributions for physical violence (N = 1129).

Characteristic	Chinese Medicine Hospitals				Specialist Hospitals				General Hospitals
	n	%	χ2	p	n	%	χ2	p	n	%	χ2	p
Gender
Male	9	12.3	1.829	0.176	26	55.3	15.607	0.000	49	17.6	4.608	0.032
Female	14	7.1			9	17.3			58	12.0
Age groups (Years of Age)
≤25	8	12.9	3.123	0.210	2	12.5	10.749	0.005	39	12.5	4.514	0.105
26–35	10	9.3			21	53.8			51	17.3
>35	5	5.1			12	27.3			17	10.9
Professional
Physicians	16	10.4	3.482	0.323	28	62.2	27.452	0.000	71	16.4	4.857	0.183
Nurses	7	8.2			3	8.1			31	11.6
Test technicians	0	0.0			3	21.4			2	8.0
Others	0	0.0			1	33.3			3	8.6
Professional titles
Senior	0	0.0	1.293	0.731	1	20.0	4.792	0.188	12	13.6	7.083	0.069
Intermediate	5	7.2			6	21.4			38	12.9
Junior	8	9.5			11	37.9			42	18.8
No	10	9.4			17	45.9			15	9.6
Years of experience
≤5	9	9.5	0.614	0.736	0	0.0	32.407	0.000	40	11.8	11.351	0.003
6–20	8	9.5			25	71.4			52	19.8
≥21	6	6.7			10	19.2			15	9.4
Working rotating shifts
Yes	20	11.8	6.271	0.012	33	40.7	5.657	0.017	93	16.6	11.192	0.001
No	3	3.0			2	11.1			14	7.0
Department
Internal medicine	16	9.1	3.322	0.19	2	22.2	10.435	0.005	39	14.0	16.555	0.000
Surgical	5	13.9			31	45.6			57	19.2
Others	2	3.4			2	9.1			11	5.9
Anxiety level
Extremely high	14	16.7	10.467	0.033	26	48.1	9.176	0.057	68	22.3	30.124	0.000
High	2	5.4			4	28.6			15	11.6
Moderate	5	5.4			3	16.7			18	7.8
Low	1	4.3			1	6.3			4	6.2
Not at all	1	3.1			1	14.3			2	6.3
Contact with patients or their families in medical work
Yes	23	10.3	5.053	0.025	29	34.9	0.038	0.844	103	14.4	1.277	0.258
No	0	0.0			6	37.5			4	8.5