Factores asociados a la violencia contra los estudiantes de enfermería del internado rotativo

Abstract

Introduction: violence is a public health problem, among which we find workplace violence, which is identified when a worker suffers abuse, threats, attacks that can be verbal and physical. Rotating internship nursing students play an important role within healthcare institutions. Objective: to determine the factors associated with violence against nursing students in the rotating boarding school. Methods: the study presents a non-experimental research design with a quantitative, descriptive and cross-sectional approach in a group of nursing students of the rotating internship, with a sample of 121 participants, to whom a questionnaire with a reliability of 0.717 of Alpha Cronbach was applied. Results: a low risk was reported in relation to violence by the patient's familia member with 88.43%, although a small group of students is at medium risk with 11.57%. As for the factors associated with violence, a medium and high risk is shown with 56.2%. Conclusions: nursing interns receive a considerable number of physical, verbal and psychological aggressions at work, which come from relatives of patients and colleagues with higher hierarchies. In the current study, it was possible to observe the presence of blows in physical violence, humiliation and rudeness in psychological violence and in the individual associated factors aggression by the immediate superior boss, by aggressors in altered mental state and aggressors by the state of health of the relatives.