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Table 1 Distribution of demographic and professional variables

From: Workplace violence in a tertiary care Israeli hospital - a systematic analysis of the types of violence, the perpetrators and hospital departments

Variable

Description

N (%)

Total (n)

Age (mean yrs.; sd)

 

41 ± 11

641 (100%)

Gender (n;%)

Male

270 (40%)

677 (100%)

Female

407 (60%)

 

Physicians (n;%)

Department Head

23 (3%)

230 (34%)

Senior physician

104 (15%)

Resident

86 (13%)

Intern

19 (3%)

Nurses (n;%)

Head nurse

33 (5%)

446 (66%)

Staff nurse

375 (56%)

% working half-time or more >50% (n;%)

 

635 (98%)

643 (100%)

Professional seniority (mean yrs.; sd)

 

11 ± 14

641 (100%)

Departmental seniority (mean yrs.; sd)

 

8 ± 9

646 (100%)