Aggressions against healthcare workers: an approach to the situation in Spain and the victims psychological effects.

Leg Med (Tokyo)

Universidad De Zaragoza, Faculty o Medicine, Area of Legal and Forensic Medicine, C/ Domingo Miral s/n 50009 Zaragoza, Spain.

Published: April 2009

Aggression against healthcare workers is a problem of important consequences which is becoming a focus of research. However, its possible effects on psychological health have not been studied sufficiently in spite of the fact that they may be of importance even in the absence of physical aggression [Winstnaley S, Whittington R. Aggression towards health care staff in a UK general hospital: variation among professions. J Clin Nurs 2004;13:3-10,[1]].

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