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- Title
Variables involved in the perception of psychological harassment in the nursing work environment.
- Authors
Biagio Fontes, Kátia; Dalva de Barros Carvalho, Maria
- Abstract
This is a descriptive-exploratory study with a quantitative approach, with the objective of identifying how nurses perceive psychological harassment at work, the behaviors experienced and the variables involved. In collecting data, two questionnaires were used: one socio-professional and another for identifying the behaviors involving psychological harassment experienced by the subjects in the previous twelve months, along with the duration and frequency of the behaviors. At the end of the questionnaire, a dichotomous question was added, which addressed nurses' perceptions in relation to feeling victimized by psychological harassment at work. Both the questionnaires were applied in electronic and print format between May and September 2010. The data was analyzed through descriptive statistics. The results showed that some of the subjects felt that they were victims of psychological harassment. Only the variables related to characterization of the psychological harassment presented significant association. The following were highlighted among the most-referred-to behaviors; "They question your decisions" and "You receive verbal attacks criticizing work you have done". It's important to open spaces for discussing violence at work, so that managers may establish strategic measures for preventing and containing this type of violence, so as to ensure health, dignity and well-being at work. It is also important to discuss this issue in the academic space, so as to give the theme greater visibility, such that future nurses will be able to identify and appropriately confront this type of violence.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; CHI-squared test; FISHER exact test; INVECTIVE; RESEARCH methodology; NURSES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH; STATISTICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL stress; VIOLENCE in the workplace; WORK environment; PILOT projects; QUANTITATIVE research; CROSS-sectional method; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem (RLAE), 2012, Vol 20, Issue 4, p761
- ISSN
1518-8345
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/S0104-11692012000400017