Risk factors of workplace violence: evidence from Turkey

Abstract

Violence in the workplace is an emerging issue for occupational and public health. There has been growing concern about how to combat it with effective interventions. This study aims to determine the prevalence of workplace violence across all sectors and to identify the risk factors that influence violence in Turkey using logistic regression. Firstly, it was seen that the prevalence of violence was 22.87% and that being female, being young, having low education and having a chronic mental disease significantly increased the chance of being exposed to violence. Our results show that the risk of victimization is almost six times higher if the job is difficult. In addition, people working in the human health sector were more than twice as likely to be victimized as those working in the education sector. According to the results, the factors influencing workplace violence point to the power imbalance.