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Table 2 Reported reasons for serious patient-initiated WPV by health care workers’ occupation

From: Violence against health care workers in China, 2013–2016: evidence from the national judgment documents

Treatment phase

Reported reason

Doctors (%)

Nurses (%)

P

Before treatment

Long waiting time

12 (4.4)

1 (1.9)

0.650b

Rejection of request

6 (2.2)

1 (1.9)

1.000b

During treatment

Dissatisfaction with the treatment process

36 (13.3)

6 (11.3)

0.725a

Dissatisfaction with staff attitude

20 (7.4)

10 (18.9)

0.021a

After treatment

Death-related issues

24 (8.9)

1 (1.9)

0.173b

Dissatisfaction with the treatment outcome

35 (13.0)

3 (5.7)

0.170a

Other reasons

 

41 (15.2)

11 (20.8)

0.399a

No reason

 

24 (8.9)

12 (22.6)

0.012a

Total

 

198 (73.3)

45 (84.9)

 
  1. Note: The overall number of doctors and nurses in our study was set as the reference according to the literature (Li et al. [22]). A 2 × 2 table was formed by combining the overall numbers with numbers in each line and the hypothesis testing was conducted
  2. aPearson chi-square test
  3. bThe chi-square test with continuity correction