Abstract:

The COVID-19 Pandemic, which emerged for the first time in Wuhan, China in 2020 and affected world, forced whole world to be locked up in homes and isolated. Health workers who were at forefront of fight against pandemic, were appreciated throughhout communities. With effect of pandemic, violence in health services for a long time has decreased sharply. The public reactions to violence in health sector were higher than ever. However, this positive climate has been replaced by violence again with the gradual decline of Pandemic in course of country. In this study, it was aimed to determine causes of violence experienced in health services in Turkey and the perception levels of health workers towards causes of violence. In this cross-sectional study, e-survey application was used. In study, data were collected from 401 health workers working in public and private sectors in Turkey with random sampling method, which is one of random sampling methods. As a result of the analyses, significant differences were seen in perception levels for the causes of violence; public-private employee, team manager-member, age, education, profession, and professional seniority variables. The highest participation in research statements was seen in dimension of 'reasons arising from legislation' (±4,43). Health workers think that punishments against those who use violence in health are not deterrents. Participants believe that number of employees is not sufficient in providing services, which causes disruptions in service, medical errors, overtime periods, and similar undesirable situations, all of which paves the way for violence.

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