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Aim Violence against women is a global public health problem that has serious adverse effects on women’s physical, mental, and reproductive health. Although the health workers place the most import part of helping the victim of violence; they(specially female health workers) also have risk to be a victim of violence againt women and violence against healthworkers. In our study we try to examine the knowledge of female health workers, about violence against women and examine the experiences about violence against women or on them.   Method We form a questionare for violence against women and their experiences about violence against them or vıctıms. We applied to female health workers (doctors and nurses) in our hospital at our worker health policlinic. We were performed by doctors by face to face method to the subjects. The data were recorded to statistics program and frequency, Chi-square and t-test were used for the analysis; p≤0.05 was considered as statistically significant.   Results 49(46,2%) doctor; 57(53,8%) nurse were included our study. 74(%69,8) were faced a violence against them [doctors(32; 43,2%); nurses(42;56,8%)]. Being doctor or nurse make any difference to be a victim.Violence is statisticaly associated with age and working years(p=0,050;p=0,017). We ask participants that when you meet a victim what dou you do? 54(50,9%) said that they can’t face these stuation and referee to an other Professional. When suspicion and victims deny; 55(51,9%) says that they only give some numbers to call and want help. There is no association between being a victim of violence and  knowing what to do to help victim.   Conclusion Although health workers themselves are exposed to high-level violence, we have found that there is still a lack of information on how to approach them and the case they are facing. For this reason, in-service trainings and lessons in university  should be organized .

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