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​​以下的工人遭受工作场所暴力的风险更高。鉴于青年工人主要就业于高风险零售和服务行业，这些行业缺乏暴力预防计划，而且青年人由于身体和心理的不断发展，可能特别容易受到工作场所暴力的影响，因此青年工人是面临风险的弱势群体。我们目前对这一人群工作场所暴力的了解很大程度上来自于工伤监测数据。然而，来自这些系统的数据低估了暴力的发生率，并且缺乏有关施暴者、事件情况、心理伤害、暴力的远端后果（例如失业、学业成绩不佳）以及接受工作场所暴力预防培训的信息。因此，为了充分调查青少年的工作场所暴力，需要替代方法。我们建议开展一项全国性电话调查，以 1000 名 15-24 岁的美国青少年为代表样本，以实现以下目标： 1) 估计年轻工人中工作场所暴力受害的普遍程度，并按就业、工人和事件特征来描述案件； 2) 描述青年工人接受的雇主提供的工作场所暴力预防培训的特征； 3) 确定年轻工人遭受工作场所暴力的风险因素； 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 创伤性伤害跨部门计划（目标 3：减少工作场所暴力造成的职业伤害和死亡；目标 5：减少高风险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，将餐馆和食品配送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) 该研究将对 25 岁以下工人中工作场所暴力受害率进行比监测方法更准确的估计； 2) 它将提供第一个针对年轻工人群体的工作场所暴力风险因素数据； 3）详细说明雇主对青年工人进行的工作场所暴力培训的内容和数量； 4) 它将产生一些初步数据，说明经历工作场所暴力可能对青年的就业和教育产生的更深远的影响。拟议工作的近期产出将包括在全国会议上的演讲、同行评审的出版物以及国家调查数据的获取。