Table 2.

Features of excluded studies.

Author	Title	Reason for exclusion
El Ghaziri et al., 2014	Work schedule and clients characteristics associated with workplace violence among nurses and midwives in sub-Saharan Africa	Full article not accessible
Muldoon et al., 2017	Policing the epidemics: high burden of workplace violence against sex workers	Not on health workers
Hinsenkamp (2013)	Violence against healthcare workers	Editorial article
Madzhadzhi et al. (2017)	Work place violence against nurses: Vhembe district hospital south Africa	Full article not accessible
Abbas et al. (2010)	Epidemiology of workplace violence against nursing staff in Egypt	Full article not accessible
Ogbonnaya et al. (2012)	Workplace violence against health workers in Nigeria tertiary Hospitals	Full article not accessible
Asefa et al. (2018)	Service providers experience of disrespectful and abusive behavior towards women during facility based child birth in Ethiopia	Not related