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

Table 3 Reported reasons for serious patient-initiated WPV by hospital levels

Treatment phase	Reported reason	Primary (%)	Secondary (%)	Tertiary (%)	P
Before treatment	Long waiting time	4 (8.9)	5 (2.6)	7 (6.4)	0.127^a
Before treatment	Rejection of request	3 (6.7)	3 (1.5)	3 (2.7)	0.144^b
During treatment	Dissatisfaction with the treatment process	5 (11.1)	23 (11.7)	11 (10.0)	0.917^a
During treatment	Dissatisfaction with staff attitude	7 (15.6)	14 (7.1)	10 (9.1)	0.274^a
After treatment	Death-related issues	5 (11.1)	43 (21.9)	13 (11.8)	0.101^a
After treatment	Dissatisfaction with the treatment outcome	8 (17.8)	16 (8.2)	10 (9.1)	0.217^a
Other reasons		6 (13.3)	50 (25.5)	26 (23.6)	0.364^a
No reason		2 (4.4)	23 (11.7)	10 (9.1)	0.378^a
Total		40 (88.9)	177 (90.3)	90 (81.9)

Note: The overall number of primary, secondary, and tertiary hospitals in our study was set as the reference according to the relevant research (Li et al. [22]). A 2 × 3 table was formed by combining the overall numbers with numbers in each line and the hypothesis testing was conducted
^aPearson chi-square test
^bFisher’s exact test

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