Workplace Violence in Outpatient Physician Clinics.
Project Overview
Workplace violence (WPV) including verbal abuse, physical threats, and physical assaults can result is serious adverse consequences for workers.
Researchers conducted a three-year, cross-sectional study employing a mixed-methods approach including worker and clinic level surveys, focus groups, clinic walk-through surveys, geo-information system (GIS) analyses to study WPV and WPV prevention efforts at the worker, clinic, clinic system, and community levels.
The Southwest Center for Occupational and Environmental Health is part of the UTHealth Houston School of Public Health