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Post-trauma symptoms in health workers following physical and verbal aggression

Work & StressPublished 1 April 2003
Sue Walsh, Emma Clarke
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TL;DR

The finding that verbal aggression and apparently minor incidents can result in significant distress is important as verbal aggression is widely experienced in the health service and increasing staff preparedness and their expectation of incidents may help to reduce the impact.

Abstract

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image sizeKeywords: AgressionsHealth service staffImpact of event scale-revised

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Social Sciences