Occupational violence and aggression in urgent and critical care in rural health service settings: A systematic review of mixed studies.

ABSTRACT: Rural/remote health services are vulnerable to occupational violence and aggression due to factors such as weapon accessibility, poor network coverage and distance to backup. This systematic review investigated (1) the nature of occupational violence and aggression perpetrated in rural/remote health service urgent care settings and (2) the availability and effectiveness of policies/interventions/recommendations that address occupational violence and aggression in this context. We searched Business Source Complete, CINAHL Complete, Health & Society, APAIS Health, Health Collection, PsycINFO, PubMed, Scopus, SocIndex and Web of Science. Included articles (peer-reviewed, no grey literature and English language) addressed occupational violence and aggression in rural health service urgent care

SUBMITTER: Grant SL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10086783 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature