Understanding Workplace Violence Among Young Workers in the US

了解美国年轻工人的工作场所暴力

• 批准号: 9320028
• 负责人: CARRI CASTEEL
• 金额: $ 42.91万
• 依托单位: WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-30 至 2018-09-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9320028
• 关键词: Understanding; Workplace; Violence; Among; Young

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Workers under the age of 25 have an increased risk of workplace violence compared to all workers combined. Given their predominant employment in the high-risk retail and service industries, the lack of violence prevention programs in these industries, and the fact that youth may be uniquely affected by workplace violence due to their ongoing physical and psychological development, young workers are a vulnerable population at risk. Our current understanding of workplace violence in this population largely comes from occupational injury surveillance data. However, data from these systems underestimate the prevalence of violence and lack information about perpetrators, event circumstances, psychological harms, distal consequences of violence (e.g., job loss, poor academic achievement) and exposure to workplace violence prevention training. Therefore, to adequately investigate workplace violence among youth, alternative methodological approaches are needed. We propose a national telephone survey with a representative sample of 1000 US youth 15-24 years of age to accomplish the following aims: 1) to estimate the prevalence of workplace violence victimization among young workers and characterize cases by employment-, worker-, and event-characteristics; 2) to characterize employer-provided workplace violence prevention training received by young workers; 3) to identify risk factors for workplace violence victimization among young workers; and 4) to describe the employment and educational consequences of workplace violence victimization among young workers and examine associations between these outcomes and worker and event characteristics. The proposed work addresses the NORA cross-sector program on Traumatic Injury (Goal 3: Reduce occupational injuries and deaths due to workplace violence; Goal 5: Reduce occupational injuries and deaths among high risk and vulnerable worker groups). It also addresses NORA's Service sector program (Goal 11: By 2015, reduce the frequency of workplace violence events by 20% in restaurants and food delivery services.) The following are the major contributions of the proposed study, several of which will directly contribute to the achievement of the above NORA goals: 1) this study will produce a more accurate estimate of workplace violence victimization prevalence among workers under age 25 than surveillance methods have been able to achieve; 2) it will provide the first workplace violence risk factor data focused on young worker populations; 3) it will provide details on the content and quantity of workplace violence training young workers receive from their employers; and 4) it will generate some of the first data on the more distal consequences that experiencing workplace violence can have on youth's employment and education. Near-term outputs from the proposed work will include presentations at national conferences, peer-reviewed publications, and access to the national survey data.

 描述(由申请人提供)：与所有工人的总和相比，25岁以下的工人发生工作场所暴力的风险更高。鉴于青年工人主要在高风险的零售和服务行业就业，这些行业缺乏暴力预防方案，以及青年可能因其持续的身体和心理发展而独特地受到工作场所暴力的影响，青年工人是处于危险中的弱势群体。我们目前对这一人群中工作场所暴力的理解主要来自职业伤害监测数据。然而，来自这些系统的数据低估了暴力的普遍性，缺乏关于施暴者、事件情况、心理伤害、暴力的长远后果(例如，失业、学业成绩不佳)和接受工作场所暴力预防培训的信息。因此，为了充分调查青年中的工作场所暴力，需要采用其他方法。我们提议对1000名15-24岁的美国青年进行一项具有代表性的全国电话调查，以实现以下目标：1)估计年轻工人中工作场所暴力受害的流行率，并根据就业、工人和事件特征来表征案例；2)表征雇主提供的青年工人接受的工作场所暴力预防培训；3)确定年轻工人中工作场所暴力受害的风险因素；以及4)描述年轻工人中工作场所暴力受害的就业和教育后果，并研究这些结果与工人和事件特征之间的关联。拟议的工作涉及Nora关于创伤伤害的跨部门方案(目标3：减少工作场所暴力造成的职业伤害和死亡；目标5：减少高危和弱势工人群体的职业伤害和死亡)。它还涉及Nora的服务部门计划(目标11：到2015年，将餐馆和外卖服务中工作场所暴力事件的频率减少20%。)以下是拟议研究的主要贡献，其中一些将直接有助于实现上述NORA目标：1)这项研究将对25岁以下工人中工作场所暴力受害的流行率做出比监测方法能够实现的更准确的估计；2)它将提供以年轻工人为重点的第一批工作场所暴力风险因素数据；3)它将详细说明青年工人从其雇主那里接受工作场所暴力培训的内容和数量；以及4)它将产生一些关于经历工作场所暴力对青年就业和教育可能产生的更深远后果的第一批数据。拟议工作的近期产出将包括在国家会议上所作的介绍、同行评议的出版物以及获取国家调查数据。