frequency of violence against nurses and its related factors during cardiopulmonary resuscitation in emergency wards

Context: workplace violence in the healthcare setting is an important issue in recent years.aims: the aim of this study was to evaluate the frequency of violence against emergency and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (cpr) nurses and its related factors in teaching hospitals in 2019.setting and design: in this cross sectional study, 140 emergency and cpr nurses who worked in hospitalsof the mazandaran university of medical sciences randomly selected. materials and methods: the workplace violence in the health sector questionnaire was use statistical analysis used: data were analyzed using the spss software version 20.0.results: the mean age of the nurses was 34.48 ± 6.07 years with work experience of 10.49 ± 5.93 years.most of them were female (n = 86; 61.4%) and married (n = 115; 82.1%). a total of 302 different types ofharassment were reported during 12 months before the study including physical 55.7%, verbal/bullying38.6%, sexual 5%, and racial 29.3%. relatives of the patients were the main perpetrators of the violence.association between gender and physical and sexual harassments was significant (p = 0.0001 and p = 0.043,respectively). physical harassment was significantly associated with marital status (p = 0.044), educationlevel (p = 0.034) and worry about workplace violence (p = 0.020). the association between racial violencewith the working situation was significant (p = 0.008).conclusion: based on results the prevalence of workplace violence against emergency and cpr nurses is a serious problem. future research must move from descriptive to intervention studies to provide a guideline in clinical settings.