Prevalence and Risk of Inappropriate Sexual Behavior of Patients Toward Physical Therapist Clinicians and Students in the United States | Zendy

Jill S. Boissonnault | Zendy; Ziádee Cambier | Zendy; Scott Hetzel | Zendy; Margaret M. Plack | Zendy

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Prevalence and Risk of Inappropriate Sexual Behavior of Patients Toward Physical Therapist Clinicians and Students in the United States

Author(s) -

Jill S. Boissonnault,

Ziádee Cambier,

Scott Hetzel,

Margaret M. Plack

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

physical therapy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.998

H-Index - 150

eISSN - 1538-6724

pISSN - 0031-9023

DOI - 10.1093/ptj/pzx086

Subject(s) - physical therapist , sexual behavior , psychology , clinical psychology , medicine , physical therapy

For health care providers in the United States, the risk for nonfatal violence in the workplace is 16 times greater than that for other workers. Inappropriate patient sexual behavior (IPSB) is directed at clinicians, staff, or other patients and may include leering, sexual remarks, deliberate touching, indecent exposure, and sexual assault. Inappropriate patient sexual behavior may adversely affect clinicians, the organization, or patients themselves. Few IPSB risk factors for physical therapists have been confirmed. The US prevalence was last assessed in the 1990s.

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