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Abstract The phenomenon of violence in our daily life manifests itself in many different areas. One of these areas is the health sector. The subject of this study is the different types of violence that healthcare professionals encounter while performing their professional duties. With this study, it is aimed to shed light on violence in the health sector and to make suggestions. With the help of the scale prepared depending on the purpose of the study, the factors causing violence in the health sector were revealed. With the help of ordinal logistic regression analysis, the relationship between the frequency of exposure to violence, which was determined as the dependent variable, and the independent variables, was investigated and information was given about the factors that cause violence against healthcare workers. As a result of the study, there are important factors that cause violence against health workers. Factors such as healthcare professionals being very tolerant towards patients, patients' dissatisfaction with the treatment administered, and the ineffectiveness of the code of white practice, which is accepted as a protection method against violence, led to the occurrence of violence. In addition to the risk brought by the treatment method applied to the patient, the limited opportunities while providing the service play an important role in the emergence of violence. It has been determined that the health workers do not use their legal rights or are not made to use their legal rights after the violence, the patient feels insignificant and does not respect the status of the health worker, and measures and recommendations for these elements are listed. Thus, it was aimed to draw attention to the difficult working conditions of the personnel working in the field of health as well as the situations they lived in, and constructive suggestions were presented.

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