Workplace Violence Risk in the Home Health Work Place

产品说明：工作场所暴力被认为是医疗保健部门的一个重大职业危害，但人们对家庭医疗保健工作场所问题的严重性和有效预防战略知之甚少。 家庭保健工作者与医院环境中的同行一样，面临着许多与工作场所暴力相关的危险，但他们面临着与工作组织方式性质相关的额外风险。 他们的工作往往是高度不可预测的，他们很少或根本无法控制的物理工作环境。 这一探索性研究项目的总体目标是收集试点数据，为家庭保健工作场所的研究设计、抽样策略和工作场所暴力测量提供信息。 该试点项目将针对风险因素、威胁和攻击以及现行的暴力预防战略制定措施。 该项目还将制定措施，以评估目前家庭保健中的暴力预防战略及其与职业安全与健康管理局家庭保健暴力预防指南的一致性。 这一试点项目将为大规模调查家庭保健中的工作场所暴力行为提供概念和方法蓝图，具体目标如下：（1）制定有效和可靠的措施，衡量家庭保健工作场所中工作场所暴力的潜在风险因素，（2）确定家庭保健中相关因变量、威胁和攻击的经验抽样参数，3）描述马里兰州家庭健康工作场所样本中威胁和攻击的频率和严重程度，以及4）制定措施以评估家庭健康中当前的暴力预防策略及其与OSHA指导方针的一致性，以制定全面的暴力预防计划。

DESCRIPTION: Workplace violence is recognized as a significant occupational hazard in the healthcare sector, however little is known about the magnitude of the problem and effective prevention strategies in the home health care workplace. Home healthcare workers are exposed to many of the same hazards associated with workplace violence as their counterparts in the hospital environment, but they face additional risk related to the nature of the way their work is organized. Their work is often highly unpredictable and they have little or no control of the physical work environment. The overall objective of this exploratory research project is to collect pilot data to inform study design, sampling strategy, and measurement of workplace violence in the home health work place. The pilot project will develop measures for risk factors, threats and assaults and current violence prevention strategies. This project will also develop measures to assess current violence prevention strategies in home health and their coherence with OSHA's violence prevention guidance for home healthcare. This pilot project will provide a conceptual and methodological blueprint for a large-scale investigation of workplace violence in home health care vial the following specific aims: 1) develop valid and reliable measures of potential risk factors for workplace violence in the home health workplaces, 2) ascertain empirical sampling parameters of the relevant dependent variables, threats and assaults, in home health, 3) describe the frequency and severity of threats and assault in a sample of Maryland home health work places, and 4) develop measure to assess current violence prevention strategies in home health and their coherence to OSHA guidelines for a comprehensive violence prevention program.