THE EFFECT OF WORKPLACE VIOLENCE ON OCCUPATIONAL COMMITMENT: A STUDY IN HEALTH SECTOR

Abstract

Violence against heath care professionals has increased recently in our country. This increasing violence has been affecting all health care group, doctors in particular. There are not many studies on the violence against doctors in literature. The reason is that there is not much information about the violence used against doctors (type, effect, cause and solution offer). This study has been carried out in order to examine commitments of doctors to the profession and determine what kind of effects workplace violence causes on this commitment. Research sample consists of 200 doctors working in Kocaeli province. In the study, a questionnaire including two parts as violence and occupational commitment, and questionnaire were carried out face to face. SPSS 21 statistical program was used to analyze the questionnaires. Frequency distributions of variables were illustrated and Mann Whitney-U test and Kruskal-Wallis H Test were applied to analyze the variables.