أسباب العنف و أشكال الاعتداء على الكوادر الطبية في المستشفيات الحكومية و الخاصة في الأردن

Abstract EN

The study aims to recognize the causes of violence and forms of violation on the medical staff in the government and private hospitals in Jordan, the survey and approach was used in the study, in which a questionnaire was designed to collect the preliminary data correspondent to study field, and it was distributed to the sample of the study which includes (300) employees (male and female) working as a medical and administrative staff in government and private hospitals.

The data has been collected and analyzed using the statistical analyses program (SPSS).

The results of the study has showed high levels of violence causes in the government and private hospitals in Jordan including (impetuosity and the absence of dialogue, opinion's austerity and refusing others opinions, tribalism and predominance of clan and culture), also the results has found high levels of violation forms on medical staff working in the government and private hospital in Jordan including (threatening doctors to be put in jail due to their medical mistakes, showing no respect to doctors by screaming on them face-to- face, and threatening doctors by murder due to tribalism).

Also statistically significant differences on the significance level (α≤0.05) has been found in violence causes in the government and private hospitals in Jordan according to career nature and it was in favor of (doctor's) career.

And no statistically significant differences on the level (α≤0.05) in violence causes according to gender variable have been found.

Also the results showed no differences in violation forms committed against medical staff in government and private hospitals in Jordan according to both (gender and career nature).

Based on the results of the study the researcher recommended to the necessity of performing the essential procedures by those who are in charge to reduce the factors related to violation against medical staff, this can be done by activating the punitive laws against those who commit such violent behaviors, and imposing a firm laws for such possible violation, also government and private hospitals should academically and administratively combat nepotism and favoritism in large scale.