Table 1. Distribution of study participants as per socio-demography and professional details (n = 617).
| S. no | Variables | Groups | Violence faced (D) Number (%) |
Violence not faced (S) Number (%) |
Total (D+S) Number (%) (N = 617) |
p-value* | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Government (a) N = 189 N (%) |
Private (b) N = 173 N (%) |
Both (c) N = 115 N (%) |
Total (a+b+c = D) N = 477 N (%) |
Government (p) N = 55 N (%) |
Private (q) N = 59 N (%) |
Both (r) N = 26 N (%) |
Total (p+q+r = S) N = 140 N (%) |
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| 1. | Age (years) | ≤30 | 90 (61.2) | 14 (9.5) | 17 (11.6) | 121 (82.3) | 20 (13.6) | 4 (2.7) | 2 (1.4) | 26 (17.7) | 147 (100.0) | 0.066 |
| 31–40 | 73 (28.5) | 70 (27.3) | 56 (21.9) | 199 (77.7) | 25 (9.8) | 20 (7.8) | 12 (4.7) | 57 (22.3) | 256 (100.0) | |||
| 41–50 | 20 (14.4) | 60 (43.2) | 28 (20.1) | 108 (77.7) | 7 (5.0) | 16 (11.5) | 8 (5.7) | 31 (22.3) | 139 (100.0) | |||
| 51–60 | 3 (6.4) | 19 (40.4) | 10 (21.3) | 32 (68.1) | 1 (2.1) | 13 (27.6) | 1 (2.1) | 15 (31.9) | 47 (100.0) | |||
| >60 | 3 (10.7) | 10 (35.7) | 4 (14.4) | 17 (60.8) | 2 (7.1) | 6 (21.4) | 3 (10.7) | 11 (39.2) | 28 (100.0) | |||
| P<0.001 | P<0.001 | |||||||||||
| 2. | Gender | Female | 60 (36.4) | 39 (23.6) | 24 (14.5) | 123 (74.5) | 26 (15.8) | 10 (6.1) | 6 (3.6) | 42 (25.5) | 165 (100.0) | 0.188 |
| Male | 129 (28.5) | 134 (29.6) | 91 (20.1) | 354 (78.3) | 29 (6.4) | 49 (10.8) | 20 (4.4) | 98 (21.7) | 452 (100.0) | |||
| P = 0.052 | P<0.001 | |||||||||||
| 3. | Marital status | Unmarried | 83 (62.9) | 14 (10.6) | 10 (7.6) | 107 (81.1) | 21 (15.9) | 4 (3.0) | 0 (0.0) | 25 (18.9) | 132 (100.0) | 0.148 |
| Ever Married | 106 (21.9) | 159 (32.8) | 105 (21.6) | 370 (76.3) | 34 (7.0) | 55 (11.3) | 26 (5.4) | 115 (23.7) | 485 (100.0) | |||
| P<0.001 | P<0.001 | |||||||||||
| 4. | Highest qualification | MBBS | 73 (60.3) | 14 (11.6) | 14 (11.6) | 101 (83.5) | 13 (10.7) | 4 (3.3) | 3 (2.5) | 20 (16.5) | 121 (100.0) | 0.293 |
| Specialization (MD/MS/DNB/Diploma) | 103 (24.6) | 126 (30.1) | 83 (19.8) | 312 (74.5) | 40 (9.5) | 45 (10.7) | 22 (5.3) | 107 (25.5) | 419 (100.0) | |||
| Super specialization (DM/MCH/FNB) | 13 (16.9) | 33 (42.9) | 18 (23.4) | 64 (83.1) | 2 (2.6) | 10 (13.0) | 1 (1.3) | 13 (16.9) | 77 (100.0) | |||
| P<0.001 | P = 0.071 | |||||||||||
| 6. | Years of experience | <5 years | 95 (51.9) | 30 (16.4) | 15 (8.2) | 140 (76.5) | 24 (13.1) | 14 (7.7) | 5 (2.7) | 43 (23.5) | 183 (100.0) | 0.455 |
| 5–10 years | 63 (31.0) | 52 (25.6) | 51 (25.1) | 166 (81.8) | 16 (7.9) | 12 (5.9) | 9 (4.4) | 37 (18.2) | 203 (100.0) | |||
| 11–15 years | 11 (15.3) | 26 (36.1) | 19 (26.4) | 56 (77.8) | 7 (9.7) | 4 (5.6) | 5 (6.9) | 16 (22.2) | 72 (100.0) | |||
| 16–20 years | 12 (18.2) | 29 (43.9) | 11 (16.7) | 52 (78.8) | 4 (6.1) | 7 (10.6) | 3 (4.5) | 14 (21.2) | 66 (100.0) | |||
| >20 | 8 (8.6) | 36 (38.7) | 19 (20.4) | 63 (67.7) | 4 (4.3) | 22 (23.7) | 4 (4.3) | 30 (32.3) | 93 (100.0) | |||
| P<0.001 | P = 0.003 | |||||||||||
| 7. | Area of practice | Village | 24 (50.0) | 4 (8.3) | 8 (16.7) | 36 (75.0) | 6 (12.5) | 3 (6.3) | 3 (6.3) | 12 (25.0) | 48 (100.0) | 0.484 |
| Town/city | 119 (28.3) | 124 (29.5) | 76 (18.1) | 319 (76.0) | 38 (9.0) | 47 (11.2) | 16 (3.8) | 101 (24.0) | 420 (100.0) | |||
| Metropolitan city | 46 (30.9) | 45 (30.2) | 31 (20.8) | 122 (81.9) | 11 (7.4) | 9 (6.0) | 7 (4.7) | 27 (18.1) | 149 (100.0) | |||
| P = 0.005 | P = 0.410 | |||||||||||
*p-value for comparison between study “total participants faced workplace violence” and “total participants not faced workplace violence”.