Table 2. Occurrence of different types of workplace violence among nursing professionals, as categorized by gender, frequency, perpetrator, location and possibility of prevention, Londrina, PR, Brazil, 2018.

Type of violence	Physical	Verbal abuse	Mobbing	Sexual harassment	Racial discrimination	Total n (%)
Gender
Male	0	5	2	2	1	10 (20.5)
Female	6	15	11	3	2	37 (75.5)
Missing	0	1	1	0	0	2 (4.0)
Frequency in the past 12 months
All the time	0	0	2	0	0	2 (4.0)
Sometimes	0	5	9	3	3	20 (41.0)
Once	6	16	3	2	0	27 (55.0)
Perpetrator
Patient/relatives of patient	6	7	3	2	2	20 (41.0)
Colleague/supervisor	0	14	11	3	1	29 (59.0)
Location of incident
Inside institution	6	20	13	5	3	47 (96.0)
Outside (on the way to/from work)	0	1	1	0	0	2 (4.0)
Could have been prevented
Yes	4	18	14	5	3	44 (90.0)
No	2	3	0	0	0	5 (10.0)