Abstract
Objective
To verify the association between workplace violence and quality of professional life in nurses from Basic Health Units.
Methods
This is a descriptive, cross-sectional and analytical study developed with 101 primary care nurses, whose data were collected using an instrument of sociodemographic, occupational and lifestyle characteristics, the Survey Questionnaire Workplace Violence in the Health Sector and the Professional Quality of Life Scale, to assess workplace violence and the quality of professional life, respectively. Data were analyzed descriptively and inferentially, using Wald’s chi-square test, considering p<0.05 as statistical significance.
Results
The prevalence of types of violence was 65.3% for verbal, 29.7% moral harassment, 17.8% physical, 1% sexual harassment and 1% racial discrimination. Low compassion satisfaction occurred with 54.5% of respondents, high burnout with 58.4% and high post-traumatic stress, 57.4%. Compassion satisfaction was associated with bullying at work (p=0.047), encouragement to report violence (p=0.040) and having consequences for offenders (p=0.018). There was no association between the types of violence and burnout. Posttraumatic stress was associated with physical workplace violence (p=0.047) and with the existence of procedures to report violence (p=0.018).
Conclusion
There was an association of workplace violence with the quality of professional life. It is necessary to create institutional measures to promote the quality of professional life, prevent workplace violence and standard procedures to guide professionals in the face of violent acts.
Workplace violence; Quality of life; Nurses; Primary health care; Occupational health