Table 1.

Description of the included studies.

Autores	n	Age	% Women	Type Work	Type Study	Burnout Evaluation	Workplace Violence Evaluation	Otras Medidas
(Out, 2005) [24]	385	41	97.2%	Nurses	Transversal	-Maslach Burnout Inventory-Human Services Survey (MBI-HSS)	-The Negative Acts Questionnaire (NAQ). -Specific Events in the Workplace (Keashly, Trott, & MacLean, 1994).	Job Satisfaction Subscale of the Ward Organisational Features Scales (WOFS). -Turnover Cognitions Scale (Bozeman & Perrewe, 2001). -World Assumptions Scale (WAS; Janoff-Bulman, 1989): Evalúa los factores relacionados con la benevolencia. -Symptom Assessment—45 Questionnaire (SA-4): Evalúa aspectos psicológicos.
(Merezc, 2006) [25]	413	38	X	Physicians	Transversal	-Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)	Own questionnaire on assaults suffered at work.	-General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28)
(Isaksson, 2008) [26]	196	41.5	85.7%	Assistants	Transversal	-Maslach Burnout Inventory-Human Services Survey (MBI-HSS)	Own questionnaire on assaults suffered at work.	-Memories of Parental Rearing -Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI-125)
(Merecz, 2009) [27]	1554	39.54	X	Nurses	Transversal	-Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)	-Workplace Aggression Questionnaire (EWAQ). -Direct reactions to aggressive behaviours (DRAB).	-Job satisfaction: 22-itemdeveloped by the Work Psychology Department of NIOM. -Well-being psychological: General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28).
(Spence-Laschinger, 2010) [28]	415	27.24	94%	Nurses	Transversal	-Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)	-Negative Acts Questionnaire-Revised (NAQ-R)	-The Authentic Leadership Questionnaire (ALQ) (Avolio, Gardner, & Walumbwa, 2007). -Psychological Capital Questionnaire (Luthans et al., 2007)
(Dikmetas, 2011) [29]	270	30	34.07%	Physicians	Transversal	-Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)	-Leymann Inventory of Psychological Terror: Evalúa el bullying y el mobbing	Demographic and professional background.
(Happell, 2011) [30]	123	41.38	X	Nurses	Transversal	-Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)	-Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ).	-Survey of Nurses’ Attitudes to Seclusion Survey (SNASS; Heyman 1987). -Elsom Therapeutic Optimism Scale (ETOS; Elsom & McCauley-Elsom 2008)
(Murillo, 2011) [31]	20	31	45%	Physicians	Transversal	-Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI-HSS)	-Protocol of assaults on doctors that evaluates data on the assault	Demographic and professional background.
(Spence Laschinger, 2011) [32]	165	28.28	93.2%	Nurses	Transversal	-Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)	Negative Acts Ques- tionnaire-Revised (NAQ-R)	-The Areas of Worklife Scale (AWS). -Psychological Capital Questionnaire (PCQ). -Pressure Management Indicator(PMI)
(Patrick, 2011) [33]	339	28.10	91.5%	Nurses	Transversal	-Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)	Negative Acts Ques- tionnaire-Revised (NAQ-R)	-The Authentic Leadership Ques-tionnaire (ALQ) -Job Satisfaction scale.
(Sundin, 2011) [34]	1216	42.37	94.3%	Nurses	Longitudinal	-Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)	-Work Environment Survey (SWES)	-Work and social support: Items extracted from the Swedish Work Environment Survey (SWES).
(Hensel, 2012) [35]	926	39.7	82.3%	Nurses, physicians and assistants	Transversal	-Maslach Burnout Inventory-Human Services Survey (MBI-HSS)	-Questionnaire on the frequency of assaults suffered at work.	-Demographic and professional background.
(Gascon, 2012) [36]	1826	41.84	64.2%	Nurses, physicians and assistants	Transversal	Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI-HSS)	Workplace violence Questionnaire (Gascón et al. 2009b)	-Areas of Work-life Scale (AWS, Leiter & Maslach 2004a)
(Pranjic, 2012) [37]	116	X	72.4%	Nurses, physicians and assistants	Transversal	-Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)	-Mobbing Questionnaire	-Job satisfaction questionnaire. -Work commitment
(Roldán, 2012) [38]	315	43.92	37.4%	Physicians	Transversal	-Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)	-Questionnaire on the frequency of assaults suffered at work.	-The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). -The Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI).
(Spence-Laschinger, 2012) [39]	205	X	92%	Nurses	Transversal	-Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)	-Questionnaire on the frequency of assaults suffered at work.	-Work satisfaction (Shaver & Lacey, 2003).
(Galián-Muñoz, 2013) [40]	137	42	82.5%	Nurses and assistants	Transversal	-Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)	Hospital Aggressive Behaviour Scale-Users	-General Health Questionnaire GHQ-28
(Read, 2013) [41]	342	28.1	91.5%	Nurses	Transversal	-Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)	-Negative Acts Questionnaire— Revised (NAQ-R) -Workplace Incivility Scale (Cortina et al. 2001).	Conditions of Work Effectiveness Questionnaire II (Laschinger et al. 2001) Career Turnover Intentions (Kelloway et al., 1999) -Areas of Worklife Scale, Community subscale (Leiter and Maslach, 2004) -Areas of Worklife Scale, Values subscale (Leiter and Maslach, 2004) -Areas of Worklife Scale, Fairness subscale (Leiter and Maslach, 2004) -Psychological Capital Questionnaire (Leiter and Maslach, 2004) -Authentic Leadership Questionnaire (Luthans et al., 2007) -Pressure Management IndicatorPhysical Symptoms subscaleEnergy Levels subscale (Williams and Cooper, 1998)
(Pineau-Stamr, 2013) [42]	205	28.1	91.5%	Nurses	Longitudinal	-Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)	-Negative Acts Questionnaire— Revised (NAQ-R)	-Job Turnover Intentions Scale, (Kelloway, Gottlieb, y Barham’s 1999). -Authentic Leadership Questionnaire (ALQ)
(Threadgill, 2013) [43]	185	X	86%	Nurses	Transversal	-Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)	-Negative Acts Questionnaire—Revised (NAQ-R)	-Demographic and professional background. -intention to quit
(Hensel, 2014) [44]	671	38.7	83.0%	Assistants	Transversal	Maslach Burnout Inventory-Human Services Survey (MBI-HSS)	-Staff Observation Assessment Scale—revised (SOAS-R). -Questionnaire on the frequency of assaults suffered at work.	-Emotional reactions to aggressive behaviour scale. -Difficult behaviour self-efficacy scale. -Positive Work Motivations Scale (PWMS) and General Positive Contributions Scale (GPCS).
(Hu, 2014) [45]	424	X	96%	Nurses	Transversal	-Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)	Own questionnaire on assaults suffered at work.	-Demographic and professional background.
(Trépanier, 2014) [46]	699	43.99	90.5%	Nurses	Longitudinal	-Maslach Burnout Inventory General Survey (MBI-GS)	Negative Acts Questionnaire— Revised (NAQ-R)	-Satisfaction: Work-Related Basic Need Satisfaction scale
(Waschgler, 2014) [19]	694	42	83.4%	Nurses	Transversal	-Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)	Overall Job Satisfaction	-General Health Questionnaire GHQ-28.
(Abdo, 2015) [47]	550	31.0	72.3%	Nurses and Physicians	Transversal	-Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)	Own questionnaire on assaults suffered at work.	-Job satisfaction questionnaire
(Alameddine, 2015) [48]	915	X	79.4%	Nurses	Transversal	-Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)	-Exposure and consequences of violence: verbal abuse and physical violence in the last 12 months	-Demographic and professional background. -Intention to quit
(Dal-Pai, 2015) [49]	269	48.5	73%	Nurses and Physicians	Transversal	-Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)	-Survey Questionnaire Workplace Violence in the Health Sector	-Self-Report Questionnaire (SRQ-20)
(Menon, 2015) [50]	99	40	50%	Nurses and Physicians	Transversal	-Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)	-Descriptive questionnaire on working conditions and violence suffered.	Work stress evaluation questionnaire.
(Pintado-Cucarella, 2015) [51]	29	39.24	65.5%	Physicians	Transversal	Maslach Burnout Inventory-Human Services Survey (MBI-HSS)	Own questionnaire on assaults suffered at work	Jefferson Medical Empathy Scale
(Viotti, 2015) [52]	630	37.97	82.2%	Nurses and Assistants	Transversal	-Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)	-Customer-Related Social stressors (CSS) inventory	-Labor resources.
(Deniz, 2016) [53]	120	29.47	46.7%	Nurses and Physicians	Transversal	-Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)	Own questionnaire on assaults suffered at work.	Demographic and professional background.
(Galián-Muñoz, 2016) [54]	1489	42.09	82.7%	Nurses, physicians and assistants	Transversal	-Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)	The Hospital Aggressive Behaviour Scale—Users (HABS-U).	-Job satisfaction.
(Llor-Esteban, 2016) [55]	518	41.3	86.3%	Nurses	Transversal	-Maslach Burnout Inventory—General Survey (MBI-GS).	Own questionnaire on assaults suffered at work	-Overall Job Satisfaction Scale (OJS).
(Anwar, 2017) [56]	286	28.9	X	Nurses	Transversal	-Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)	Own questionnaire on assaults suffered at work.	Demographic and professional background.
(Bawakid, 2017) [57]	246	35	57.3%	Physicians	Transversal	-Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)	Own questionnaire on assaults suffered at work.	Demographic and professional background.
(Karsavuran, 2017) [58]	454	55	32.0%	Physicians	Transversal	-Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)	Own questionnaire on assaults suffered at work.	-Demographic and professional background. -Leymann Inventory of Psychological Terrorization (LIPT).
(Hamdan, 2017) [59]	444	30	76.8%	Nurses and Physicians	Transversal	-Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)	Own questionnaire on assaults suffered at work.	Demographic and professional background.
(Portoghese, 2017) [60]	40	X	75.0%	Physicians	Transversal	-Maslach Burnout Inventory-Human Services Survey (MBI-HSS)	-Fear of future violent events at work (Rogers and Kelloway, 1997). -Psychological aggression (Rogers and Kelloway, 1997).	-Demographic and professional background. -Job Control
(Rafeea, 2017) [61]	100	35	66%	Nurses, Physicians and Assistants	Transversal	-Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)	Own questionnaire on assaults suffered at work	-Demographic and professional background.
(Wongtongkam, 2017) [62]	48	39.19	64.8%	Nurses	Transversal	-Abbreviated Maslach Burnout Inventory.	Workplace violence: personal experience of the last 30 days, causes and contributing factors. Authors’ characteristics	Available resources. Impact of event scale-revised (IES-R). Evaluate Post-Traumatic Stress.
(Copeland, 2018) [63]	147	35	63%	Nurses and physicians	Transversal	-Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)	Own questionnaire on assaults suffered at work.	-Job Satisfaction
(Coskun-Cenk, 2018) [64]	143	X	58.7%	Nurses and physicians	Transversal-descriptive	-Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)	Own questionnaire on assaults suffered at work.	Demographic and professional background.
(Kim, 2018) [65]	170	X	75%	Nurses	Transversal	-Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)	Own questionnaire on assaults suffered at work.	AACN’s HWE Questionnaire: Evaluates collaboration between colleagues, communication skills, effectiveness of decision-making, leadership, recognition
(Looff, 2018) [66]	114	35.2	59%	Nurses	Transversal	-Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)	-Modified Overt Aggression Scale (Oliver, Crawford, Rao, Reece, & Tyrer, 2007).	-Dutch Bar-On Emotional Quotient Inventory. Bar-On 2006): Evaluate Emotional Intelligence. -NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI): Evaluate personality factors. -Demands and Support questionnaire: Assess emotional stress.
(Shier, 2018) [67]	674	42.91	86.6%	Nurses, Physicians and Assistants	Transversal	-Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)	Own questionnaire on assaults suffered at work.	-Relationships -Intention to Leave—A further adaptation to Kline and Graham (2009): intention to quit work. -Life Scale (SWLS): Satisfaction with life.
(Zaczyk, 2018) [68]	74	40	90.5%	Nurses	Transversal	-Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)	Own questionnaire on assaults suffered at work	Demographic and professional background.
(Aguilar-Nájera, 2019) [69]	411	X	X	Physicians	Transversal	-Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)	Own questionnaire on assaults suffered at work	Demographic and professional background.
(Ajoudani, 2019) [70]	278	33.76	85.8%	Nurses	Transversal	-Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)	-Negative Acts Questionnaire (NAQ)	-Moral Distress Scale-Revised
(Akram, 2019) [71]	350	42.6	40%	Physicians	Transversal	Maslach Burnout Inventory—General Survey (MBI-GS).	-Counterproductive Work Behavior -Abusive supervisor.	-Labor resources.
(Andela,2018) [72]	481	39	96%	Nurses	Transversal	-Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)	Elderly abuse scale developed by Huguenotte (2012).	-Job stressors and job resources were measured scale.
(Ghaziri, 2019) [73]	95	44	75%	Nurses	Transversal	-Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)	-Own questionnaire on assaults suffered at work.	Demographic and professional background.
(Castro Negreiros, 2019) [74]	96	X	X	Assitants	Transversal	-Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)	-Test Escala Cisneros.	Demographic and professional background.
(Goussinsky, 2019) [75]	105	37.7	84%	Nurses	Transversal	-Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)	-Own questionnaire on assaults suffered at work.	-Coworker support Sub-scale: Peer support. -Occupational Coping Self-EfficacyQuestionnaire for Nurses (OCSE-N): Self-efficacy strategies.
(Jiménez, 2019) [76]	565	36	37.4	Nurses and Physicians	Transversal	-Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)	-Own questionnaire on assaults suffered at work.	Demographic and professional background.
(Looff, 2019) [77]	110	35.5	59%	Nurses	Longitudinal	-Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)	Questionnaire on the frequency of violence suffered at work.	Dutch Bar-On Emotional Quotient Inventory. Bar-On 2006): Evaluate Emotional Intelligence. -NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI): Evaluate personality factors. -Demands and Support questionnaire: Assess emotional stress.
(Kim, 2019) [78]	324	X	96.3%	Nurses	Transversal	-Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI). -Professional Quality of Life (ProQOL) Scale (Stamm 2009).	-Negative Acts Questionnaire-Revised (NAQ-R)	Turnover intention
(Rayan, 2019) [79]	118	29.14	56%	Nurses	Transversal	-Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)	-Own questionnaire on assaults suffered at work.	The Perceived Stress Scale
(Yasar-Hacer, 2019) [80]	310	35.4	52.3%	Physicians	Transversal	-Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)	-Own questionnaire on assaults suffered at work.	Demographic and professional background.
(Vincent-Höper, 2020) [81]	582	X	80%	Nurses	Transversal	-Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)	-Own questionnaire on assaults suffered at work.	Demographic and professional background.