Table 2:
Distribution of nurses according to variables frequency of violence, perpetrator, gender of perpetrator and time that violence occurred, Campina Grande, Brazil, 2014
| Variables | Type of Violence | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Physical | Verbal | Psychological | Sexual | ||||||
| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | ||
| Frequency | Once | 2 | 4.9 | 19 | 46.3 | 16 | 39.0 | 4 | 9.8 |
| Twice | - | - | 15 | 78.9 | 3 | 15.8 | 1 | 5.3 | |
| Three times | - | - | 15 | 88.2 | 2 | 11.8 | - | - | |
| Four times or more | - | - | 30 | 73.2 | 11 | 26.8 | - | - | |
| Perpetrator | Patient | 2 | 2.7 | 60 | 81.1 | 8 | 10.8 | 4 | 5.4 |
| Accompanying person | - | - | 49 | 83.1 | 10 | 16.9 | |||
| Health professional1 | - | - | 20 | 55.5 | 15 | 41.7 | 1 | 2.8 | |
| Head of team | - | - | 5 | 21.7 | 18 | 78.3 | - | - | |
| Others2 | - | - | 3 | 75.0 | 1 | 25.0 | - | - | |
| Gender of the perpetrator | Male | - | - | 8 | 53.3 | 4 | 26.7 | 3 | 20.0 |
| Female | 2 | 3.2 | 42 | 67.7 | 18 | 29.1 | - | - | |
| Male and female | - | - | 29 | 70.7 | 10 | 24.4 | 2 | 4.9 | |
| Time of aggression | Morning | 1 | 2.0 | 32 | 64.0 | 14 | 28.0 | 3 | 6.0 |
| Afternoon | 1 | 5.6 | 12 | 66.6 | 4 | 22.2 | 1 | 5.6 | |
| Both | - | - | 35 | 70.0 | 14 | 28.0 | 1 | 2.0 | |
1
Another primary care team members, such as medical doctors, dentists, auxiliary nurse, communitarian health agent, among others.
2
Others perpetrators refer to administrative people and visitors.