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The authors identified different forms of workplace aggression.
The researchers found that workplace aggression had severe consequences on employee well-being.
Staff training is recommended to tackle workplace aggression originating from patients or visitors, yet evidence on training effects is scarce.
Nurses who are exposed to workplace aggression from patients, patient relatives, or colleagues are at risk for mental health disorders and job dissatisfaction.
Workplace aggression remains an important source of distress among nurses and midwives and has negative effects on staff health, patient care and organisations' reputation and fiscal health.
The findings, presented this week at the Seventh International Conference on Work, Stress and Health, highlight the difficult problem of workplace aggression.
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Mental health disorders are characterised by emotional distress and impaired cognitive function, which may lead to workplace accidents, aggression, substance abuse, eating disorders, anxiety, and depression, all of which impair one's ability to work.
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However, incident reporting of workplace violence and aggression in this setting is not routine practise and a high number of unreported cases must be assumed.
Hahn et al 1 found that when dealing with workplace violence and aggression, social support from colleagues, family and friends seems to be more helpful than that provided by the institutions.
These results underline how important it is to deal with this issue of workplace violence and aggression towards nursing staff, and show that other professional groups who have frequent contact to patients and clients should not be neglected.
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