Relationships between professional value and workplace violence among healthcare workers: an empiricle study from China.

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BACKGROUND: Workplace violence (WPV) against healthcare workers (HCWs) is a critical global public health issue that undermines staff safety, psychological well-being, and care quality. In China, HCWs experience substantial levels of WPV, yet evidence on modifiable factors negatively and positively associated with WPV, particularly those related to professional values remains limited.METHODS: We conducted a multi-center cross-sectional survey among HCWs in 25 hospitals across China. A total of 4,267 respondents completed validated questionnaires assessing demographic and professional characteristics, professional values (intrinsic, extrinsic, social, altruistic, and leisure dimensions), and exposure to five types of WPV (physical violence, psychological abuse, threats, verbal sexual harassment, and physical sexual harassment) during the preceding 12 months. We used binary logistic regression to identify factors associated with any WPV exposure and ordered logistic models to examine correlates of increasing violence frequency.RESULTS: More than half of participants (53.77%) reported psychological abuse in the previous year, 30.40% experienced threats, and 20.15% reported physical violence. Verbal and physical sexual harassment were less frequent but non-negligible (11.31 and 6.91%, respectively). Male HCWs reported higher overall WPV exposure than females in terms of violence frequency (OR = 0.686 for females in ordered logistic regression, 8,000 CNY versus