Hospitals’ attitudes and measures associate with nurses’ patient and visitor violence (PVV) reporting (n=1813, n (%))
| Item | Category | Nurses, n (%) | Whether or not to report a PVV exposure | x 2 | P | |
| Yes (n=292) | No (n=1521) | |||||
| Encourage reporting | Yes | 856 (47.2) | 220 (25.7) | 636 (74.3) | 110.493 | <0.001 |
| No | 957 (52.8) | 72 (7.5) | 885 (92.5) | |||
| Reporting institution | Yes | 520 (28.7) | 129 (24.8) | 391 (75.2) | 40.860 | <0.001 |
| No | 1293 (71.3) | 163 (12.6) | 1130 (87.4) | |||
| Reporting system | Yes | 519 (28.6) | 127 (24.5) | 392 (75.5) | 37.650 | <0.001 |
| No | 1294 (71.4) | 165 (12.8) | 1129 (87.2) | |||
| Specialised department | Yes | 671 (37.0) | 159 (23.7) | 512 (76.3) | 45.418 | <0.001 |
| No | 1142 (63.0) | 133 (11.6) | 1009 (88.4) | |||
| Reporting training | Yes | 504 (27.8) | 126 (25.0) | 378 (75.0) | 40.867 | <0.001 |
| No | 1309 (72.2) | 166 (2.7) | 1143 (87.3) | |||
| Hospital attitude | Defending the interests of the staff | 193 (10.6) | 54 (28.0) | 139 (72.0) | 66.090 | <0.001 |
| Deal fairly | 998 (55.1) | 194 (19.4) | 804 (80.6) | |||
| Ignore it | 382 (21.1) | 29 (7.6) | 353 (92.4) | |||
| Chastise employees | 240 (13.2) | 15 (6.3) | 225 (93.8) | |||
| Degree of attention | Emphasis doctors more | 959 (52.9) | 105 (10.9) | 854 (89.1) | 44.393 | <0.001 |
| Emphasis nurses more | 76 (4.2) | 23 (30.3) | 53 (69.7) | |||
| Pay attention equally | 778 (42.9) | 164 (21.1) | 614 (78.9) | |||