Logistic regression on nurses’ patient and visitor violence (PVV) reporting (n=1813)
Item | P | OR | 95% CI | |
Lower | Upper | |||
Constant | <0.001 | 0.032 | — | — |
Gender (male) | 0.024 | 1.832 | 1.083 | 3.101 |
Specialised hospitals | <0.001 | 2.335 | 1.517 | 3.594 |
Internal medicine* | <0.001 | — | — | — |
Emergency | 0.018 | 1.788 | 1.105 | 2.892 |
Outpatient | <0.001 | 3.153 | 1.697 | 5.860 |
Surgery | 0.208 | 1.384 | 0.834 | 2.297 |
Gynaecology and obstetrics | 0.919 | 1.051 | 0.403 | 2.738 |
Paediatrics | <0.001 | 3.808 | 1.976 | 7.338 |
Intensive care unit | 0.195 | 0.259 | 0.034 | 1.997 |
Psychiatry | 0.552 | 1.200 | 0.658 | 2.186 |
Others | 0.724 | 0.841 | 0.321 | 2.203 |
No* | 0.006 | — | — | — |
1~4 times | 0.287 | 0.784 | 0.501 | 1.227 |
5~9 times | 0.007 | 0.481 | 0.282 | 0.819 |
≥10 times | 0.649 | 1.156 | 0.620 | 2.156 |
Neuroticism* | 0.010 | — | — | — |
Rigour | 0.072 | 1.742 | 0.951 | 3.189 |
Agreeableness | 0.017 | 2.112 | 1.140 | 3.911 |
Openness | 0.760 | 1.107 | 0.577 | 2.124 |
Extraversion | 0.737 | 0.816 | 0.249 | 2.676 |
Mildly* | 0.521 | — | — | — |
Moderately | 0.092 | 1.819 | 0.907 | 3.647 |
Severe | 0.328 | 1.478 | 0.675 | 3.233 |
Heard of PVV before | <0.001 | 1.749 | 1.305 | 2.346 |
PVV not worth the fuss | 0.596 | 1.116 | 0.744 | 1.672 |
The state or attitude of the abuser affects reporting | 0.298 | 0.799 | 0.524 | 1.218 |
Severity of violence affects reporting | 0.012 | 0.550 | 0.344 | 0.878 |
Safety of the work environment affects reporting | 0.086 | 1.534 | 0.941 | 2.501 |
Media coverage of violence affects reporting | 0.706 | 0.925 | 0.616 | 1.388 |
Training on PVV reporting can facilitate reporting | 0.157 | 0.772 | 0.540 | 1.104 |
Establishment of a department to deal with PVV could facilitate reporting | 0.630 | 0.905 | 0.603 | 1.359 |
Introduction of a non-punitive reporting system could facilitate reporting | 0.906 | 1.022 | 0.717 | 1.455 |
Strengthening hospital security could facilitate reporting | 0.720 | 0.930 | 0.627 | 1.381 |
Proper media orientation can facilitate reporting | 0.331 | 0.838 | 0.587 | 1.197 |
Encourage reporting | <0.001 | 2.700 | 1.848 | 3.946 |
Reporting institution | 0.568 | 1.141 | 0.724 | 1.799 |
Reporting system | 0.079 | 0.659 | 0.414 | 1.049 |
Specialised department | 0.230 | 1.259 | 0.864 | 1.834 |
Reporting training | 0.563 | 0.884 | 0.582 | 1.343 |
Chastise employees* | 0.220 | — | — | — |
Defending the interests of the staff | 0.047 | 2.072 | 1.010 | 4.248 |
Deal fairly | 0.136 | 1.622 | 0.858 | 3.065 |
Ignore it | 0.446 | 1.305 | 0.657 | 2.593 |
Emphasis doctors more* | 0.052 | — | — | — |
Emphasis nurses more | 0.020 | 2.109 | 1.123 | 3.958 |
Pay attention equally | 0.940 | 1.012 | 0.734 | 1.396 |
The Hosmer-Lemeshow test value is 5.457 (p=0.708>0.05).
Negelkerke R2=0.253; Cox-Snell R2=0.149.
*Reference group.