Table 1.
Description of hospital characteristics and the hospital-level prevalence of PVV.
| Beds | Total no. of workers | Valid respondents (%) |
Included HWs
(%) |
No. of HWs experience PVV (%) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | Psychological | Physical | |||||
| General hospital | – | – | 722 (84.1) | 637 (84.5) | 172 (27.0) | 170 (26.7) | 17 (2.7) |
| Hospital 1 | 1,600 | 3,389 | 138 (16.1) | 121 (16.0) | 41 (33.9) | 41 (33.9) | 7 (5.8) |
| Hospital 2 | 1,500 | 2,954 | 129 (15.0) | 114 (15.1) | 36 (31.6) | 35 (30.7) | 2 (1.8) |
| Hospital 3 | 1,500 | 2,498 | 186 (21.7) | 166 (22.0) | 48 (28.9) | 48 (28.9) | 7 (4.2) |
| Hospital 4 | 1,500 | 4,224 | 123 (14.3) | 110 (14.6) | 30 (27.3) | 29 (26.4) | 1 (0.9) |
| Hospital 5 | 800 | 1,653 | 146 (17.0) | 126 (16.7) | 17 (13.5) | 17 (13.5) | 0 (0.0) |
| Specialized hospital | – | – | 137 (15.9) | 117 (15.5) | 48 (41.0) | 47 (40.2) | 14 (12.0) |
| Hospital 6 | 400 | 2,662 | 137 (15.9) | 117 (15.5) | 48 (41.0) | 47 (40.2) | 14 (12.0) |
| Total | – | – | 859 (100.0) | 754 (100.0) | 220 (29.2) | 217 (28.8) | 31 (4.1) |
PVV, patient and visitor violence.