Ewha Med J.  2019 Oct;42(4):56-64. 10.12771/emj.2019.42.4.56.

Systematic Review on Research Status of Workplace Violence

• Yoon YG
• Jung-Choi

• KMID: 2461073
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.12771/emj.2019.42.4.56

Abstract

OBJECTIVES
Research on workplace violence has been conducted, but rarely has been organized systematically. In this study, we summarize the definition and classification of workplace violence studies and review the literature on workplace violence.
METHODS
Using academic search engines PubMed, Google Scholar and DBpia, we found 856 papers including "workplace violence" and "adverse social behavior" AND workplace in the title published until December 2018, and 208 papers were selected. The selected papers were classified by continent and country, year of publication, occupation, classification criteria of workplace violence, and research topic.
RESULTS
By country, the number of articles in the United States was the most with 40 (19.2%), followed by China 27 (13%), Korea 16 (7.7%), and Taiwan and Australia 15 (7.2%). By job category, healthcare workers accounted for the largest portion with 162 (79.0%) of the total, and 80 of them were conducted on nurses. Other occupations included civil servants, manufacturing workers, toll collectors and wageworkers. Among the classification methods of workplace violence, 147 (67.4%) articles were classified as type and there was a difference in the type of violence defined for each article. In the research topic, 114 (44.2%) articles analyzed the effects of workplace violence, and 105 (40.7%) articles describe the prevalence and characteristics of workplace violence, and 23 (8.9%) articles analyzing the causes of violence.
CONCLUSION
The research topic is biased toward the field of healthcare, so it is necessary to expand to include various occupations or other specified occupations. It is also necessary to prepare appropriate measures against workplace violence.

Keyword

Workplace violence; Exposure to violence; Systematic review

MeSH Terms

Australia
Bias (Epidemiology)
China
Classification
Delivery of Health Care
Exposure to Violence
Korea
Occupations
Prevalence
Publications
Search Engine
Taiwan
United States
Violence
Workplace Violence*

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  Fig. 1 Selection process of literature to be studied in research.

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  Fig. 2 Frequency of published workplace violence studies by year.

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