Igiene e Sanità Pubblica 2025; 97 (4): 219-229
Amato Simona*, Anna Maria Lombardi*, Claudio Bontempi*, Livio Cortese*, Rocco Bulzomì*, Laura Ricciardi*, Alessandra Gramiccia*, Anna Aniuskevich*
Affiliations
*Rome 2 Healthcare Local Authority
ABSTRACT
Workplace violence is a worldwide problem with a higher incidence in sectors requiring intense human interactions, of which the healthcare sector is a prominent example.
In Italy, hospital violence is common, especially among psychiatrists, who have been reported at high risk for verbal aggression, injuries, threats with dangerous objects, stalking, and physical aggression.
The objectives of this study are the following: to describe the four-year incidence of aggressive acts against all healthcare workers of the ASL Roma 2, exploring the experience of healthcare workers with aggression using a form completed within 72 hours of the aggressive act, to identify the type of event reported, discipline/area of care involved, location of the event, outcome of the event and to identify potential risk factors associated with aggressive acts.