Table 1.

Basic demographic characteristics of the whole sample and subgroups according to exposure to workplace violence.

	Entire Sample (n = 1404)		Workplace Violence Cases (n = 725) a		Statistics
	n	%	n	%	χ2	p
Gender			725	51.64	1.017	0.334
Male	375	26.71	202	53.87
Female	1029	73.29	523	50.83
Age group, years					12.713	0.005
20~29	410	29.20	222	54.15
30~39	671	47.79	352	52.46
40~49	241	17.17	124	51.45
≥50	82	5.84	27	32.93
Marital status					1.004	0.605
Married	1070	76.21	553	51.68
Single	310	22.08	162	52.26
Divorce/widowed	24	1.71	10	41.67
Education level					14.185	0.001
Professional school	156	11.11	64	41.03
Junior college	444	31.26	214	48.20
College or above	804	57.26	447	55.60
Occupation					11.389	0.003
General practitioner	568	40.46	306	53.87
Nurse	565	40.24	304	53.81
Others	271	19.30	115	42.44
Employment					1.721	0.423
Permanent	526	37.46	275	52.28
contract	817	58.19	414	50.67
Other	61	4.34	36	59.02
Monthly income, RMB					15.349	0.002
<2000	122	8.69	49	40.16
2000~3999	539	38.39	262	48.61
4000~5999	444	31.62	238	53.60
≥6000	299	21.30	176	58.86

Note: ^a A case of workplace violence was defined as the healthcare worker getting a score of at least 1 on the workplace violence scale.