62% of nurses in Lebanon suffer from violence and verbal abuse || Newspapers (Arabic)

The American University of Beirut released yesterday the results of a study conducted between June 2011 and June 2012 and entitled: “National study on violence against female and male nurses: prevalence, impact and causes”.  The study covered a sample of 593 nurses working all over Lebanon and showed that 62% of the sample are subjected to verbal abuse whilst 10% are subject to physical violence in their place of work.  The nurses who were interviewed showed signs of burnout as 51% of them gave signs of emotional and psychological distress.  The study revealed that 28.8% of the nurses are not capable of any form of empathy vis-à-vis their patients whilst 24.1% indicated low levels of self esteem. It indicated that the source of verbal abuse is usually the medical and administrative staff followed by patients and their families and of physical abuse is outside the workplace.  Finally, the study pointed out that 31.7% of the nurses said that they might leave their work whilst 22.3% indicated that they hesitate in taking such a step.
Source: Al-Safir, Al-Akhbar, Al-Hayat 13 December 2012