Workplace violence against doctors in China : A case analysis of the Civil Aviation General Hospital incident
Copyright © 2022 Xiao, Du, Chen, Li, Qiu and Zhu..
Background: Violence against health professionals is a global public health problem. In 2019, a doctor was killed in Civil Aviation General Hospital (CAGH), which triggered national discussion about hospital violence. Sina Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter, played an important role in this public discussion. The CAGH incident provides us with an opportunity to explore how social media was used in the discussion on violence against doctors.
Methods: Using the built-in search engine of Sina Weibo, a data set containing 542 Chinese micro-blogs was established. Three keywords: Civil Aviation General Hospital, doctor, and knife were used to search for related posts between December 24th, 2019 and January 19th, 2020. We made a content analysis of the posts to investigate: Weibo users' demographics, views about the incident of CAGH, and measures to prevent hospital violence.
Results: Overall, 89.3% of the posts were sent by individual Weibo users, and 10.7% by organizations. Among the individual users, doctors accounted for 27.4%, but only 1.0% came from the legal profession. In addition, 86.7% of the micro-blogs expressed sympathy for the attacked doctor, and 23.1% of the micro-blogs thought that the imperfect medical system was the main cause of the accident. Nearly half of the posts described their disappointment with the government and the society, and 58.6% of medical staff users expressed regret for engaging in medical work. Only 14.2% of micro-blogs put forward some constructive strategies to prevent hospital violence.
Conclusion: Weibo users played an important role in spreading and discussing the CAGH incident. However, constructive measures to protect doctors were rarely mentioned, and legal opinions were not reflected in time. Hospital violence has caused public dissatisfaction with the government and weakened the professional confidence of medical staff. Occupational health and public health stakeholders must take effective measures to solve workplace violence against doctors.
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2022 |
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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:10 |
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Frontiers in public health - 10(2022) vom: 30., Seite 978322 |
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Xiao, Yu [VerfasserIn] |
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Date Completed 19.09.2022 Date Revised 23.01.2023 published: Electronic-eCollection Citation Status MEDLINE |
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10.3389/fpubh.2022.978322 |
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| 520 | |a Background: Violence against health professionals is a global public health problem. In 2019, a doctor was killed in Civil Aviation General Hospital (CAGH), which triggered national discussion about hospital violence. Sina Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter, played an important role in this public discussion. The CAGH incident provides us with an opportunity to explore how social media was used in the discussion on violence against doctors | ||
| 520 | |a Methods: Using the built-in search engine of Sina Weibo, a data set containing 542 Chinese micro-blogs was established. Three keywords: Civil Aviation General Hospital, doctor, and knife were used to search for related posts between December 24th, 2019 and January 19th, 2020. We made a content analysis of the posts to investigate: Weibo users' demographics, views about the incident of CAGH, and measures to prevent hospital violence | ||
| 520 | |a Results: Overall, 89.3% of the posts were sent by individual Weibo users, and 10.7% by organizations. Among the individual users, doctors accounted for 27.4%, but only 1.0% came from the legal profession. In addition, 86.7% of the micro-blogs expressed sympathy for the attacked doctor, and 23.1% of the micro-blogs thought that the imperfect medical system was the main cause of the accident. Nearly half of the posts described their disappointment with the government and the society, and 58.6% of medical staff users expressed regret for engaging in medical work. Only 14.2% of micro-blogs put forward some constructive strategies to prevent hospital violence | ||
| 520 | |a Conclusion: Weibo users played an important role in spreading and discussing the CAGH incident. However, constructive measures to protect doctors were rarely mentioned, and legal opinions were not reflected in time. Hospital violence has caused public dissatisfaction with the government and weakened the professional confidence of medical staff. Occupational health and public health stakeholders must take effective measures to solve workplace violence against doctors | ||
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