Understanding Workplace Violence Among Young Workers in the US

 描述（由申请人提供）：与所有工人相比，25岁以下的工人遭受工作场所暴力的风险增加。鉴于青年工人主要在高风险零售和服务行业就业，这些行业缺乏预防暴力方案，而且青年由于其持续的身心发展而可能受到工作场所暴力的独特影响，因此青年工人是处于风险中的弱势群体。我们目前对这一人群工作场所暴力的了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，缺乏关于肇事者、事件情况、心理伤害、暴力的远端后果（例如，失业、学习成绩差）以及接受预防工作场所暴力的培训。因此，为了充分调查青年人在工作场所的暴力行为，需要采取其他方法。本研究以美国1000名15-24岁的青少年为样本，通过电话调查的方式，对青少年员工的职场暴力受害情况进行了调查，并根据其职业、工作者和事件的特征对青少年员工的职场暴力受害情况进行了分析。3）确定年轻工人中工作场所暴力受害的风险因素;和4）描述年轻工人中工作场所暴力受害的就业和教育后果，并检查这些结果与工人和事件特征之间的关联。拟议的工作涉及诺拉跨部门创伤方案（目标3：减少工作场所暴力造成的职业伤害和死亡;目标5：减少高风险和弱势工人群体的职业伤害和死亡）。它还涉及诺拉的服务部门方案（目标11：到2015年，将餐馆和送餐服务部门的工作场所暴力事件频率降低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诺拉目标：1）这项研究将比监测方法更准确地估计25岁以下工人的工作场所暴力受害率; 2）它将提供第一个以年轻工人为重点的工作场所暴力风险因素数据; 3）它将提供有关青年工人从其雇主那里获得的工作场所暴力培训的内容和数量的详细信息;以及4）它将产生关于经历工作场所暴力可能对青年就业和教育产生的更深远影响的首批数据。拟议工作的近期产出将包括在国家会议上介绍情况、同行审查的出版物以及获得国家调查数据。

 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.