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Table 1 Demographic & Job Characteristics and association with Violence

From: Prevalence and determinants of violence against health care in the metropolitan city of Peshawar: a cross sectional study

Variables

Exposed to violence

N = 427

n (%)

Not exposed to violence

N = 415

n (%)

Significance

Age in years (Mean ± SD)

35.44 ± 9.2

35.52 ± 10.0

0.910

Work Experience in years (Mean ± SD)

9.85 ± 8.88

9.85 ± 8.67

0.868

No of co-workers (Mean ± SD)

7.14 ± 7.22

4.90 ± 4.68

< 0.001

Gender

 Male

296 (69.32)

278 (66.99)

0.468

 Female

131 (30.68)

137 (33.01)

Level of healthcare facility

 Primary

37 (8.7)

38 (9.2)

0.802

 Tertiary

390 (91.3)

377 (90.8)

Type of Health facility

  

 Public

396 (92.7)

298 (71.8)

< 0.001

 Private

31 (7.3)

117 (28.2)

Marital status

 Single

116 (27.2)

123 (29.6)

0.426

 Married

311 (72.8)

292 (70.4)

Job category

 Physicians

104 (24.4)

68 (16.4)

< 0.001

 Nurse

84 (19.7)

109 (26.3)

 Paramedics

89 (20.8)

126 (30.4)

 Support Staff

150 (35.1)

112 (27.0)

How worried are you regarding violence in your work settings

 Not worried

106 (24.8)

226 (54.5)

< 0.001

 Somewhat worried

57 (13.4)

92 (22.2)

 Little worried

83 (19.4)

74 (17.8)

 Worried

105 (24.6)

11 (2.7)

 Extremely worried

76 (17.8)

12 (2.9)

Distress status

 Normal

206 (48.2)

214 (51.6)

0.621

 Somewhat distress

200 (46.8)

181 (43.6)

 Severe distress

21 (5.0)

20 (4.8)