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Sexual harassment of nurses: an occupational hazard?
Author(s) -
FINNIS SARAH J.,
ROBBINS IAN
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
journal of clinical nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.94
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1365-2702
pISSN - 0962-1067
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2702.1994.tb00367.x
Subject(s) - harassment , context (archaeology) , assertiveness , attribution , medicine , occupational safety and health , psychology , nursing , family medicine , clinical psychology , social psychology , paleontology , pathology , biology
Summary• A questionnaire was administered to qualified and student nurses to assess the prevalence and consequences of sexual harassment. • There was a 56% completion rate. Of these 43 (66%) of the registered nurses and nine (35%) of the student nurses reported having experienced sexual harassment. The incidence of harassment for registered nurses in the year prior to the study was 46%. • Patients were most likely to be the harasser for both student and registered nurses but there was an increased likelihood that other staff were involved in the harassment of registered nurses with doctors and male nursing staff being the predominant perpetrators. • Dimensions of assertiveness and sex role identity did not predict the likelihood of harassment. • Results are discussed in the context of attribution theory and gender power relationships.