Violence Against Psychiatric Trainees: Findings of a European Survey.
Victor Pereira-SanchezAhmet GürcanSundar GnanavelJoana VieiraMarton AsztalosYugesh RaiGamze ErzinAudrey FontaineMariana Pinto da CostaAnna SzczegielniakPublished in: Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry (2021)
Violence from patients is reported by many psychiatric trainees across countries in Europe, with very frequent verbal abuse and worrisome figures of physical and sexual assaults. Particularly concerning are the low proportion of trainees reporting to authorities, the lack of staff training and management protocols, and trainees' lack of awareness about those resources. Despite the study limitation of a small response rate, these results support a call for urgent efforts to address this problem in Europe, and possibly beyond.