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Purpose: Violence at work is an important source of problem for workers around the world. This study was aimed at determining the frequency of health workers exposed to violence, the type of violence they encounter, the professional characteristics that affect them and the health workers’ opinions about the causes of violence and the measures to be taken against violence in health. Method: 598 doctors and 357 assistant health workers who are working in the Adana province have been surveyed. SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) for Windows 25.0 has been used for statistical analysis. Results: 48,5 percent of the 955 health workers involved in our study are men and 51.5 percent are women. 85.9% of the health care workers who participated in our study have been exposed to violence at least once throughout their professional life. The most common type of violence is psychological or verbal violence, and the most common type of violence is applied by the patient’s relatives and male sex. Men’s health care workers have been found to be more exposed to physical violence in a statistically significant level. It has been found that there is a statistically meaningful relationship between the number of patients concerned in a day and the rates of exposure to violence. Those who were subjected to physical violence were more complaining than those who were subjected to other types of violence. The high levels of violence against health workers are worrying, and violence in health is seen as a major problem. This problem can be solved by all sides, including health politicians, in the first place.

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