Population and methods
This was an observational, descriptive, cross-sectional study, carried
out from March to May 2019 in all departments of the Lichinga Provincial
Hospital and at the Lichinga City Health Centre in the Niassa Province
of Mozambique.
The methodological details are described in other
article.3 This questionnaire survey collected
self-reported information on VHCW in selected health care units in the
12 months preceding the survey date.
The study participants were recruited following a simple random sampling
strategy. The study excluded HCW: who were on vacation or taking another
type of leave; working at the study health unit for less than 12 months;
who did not report any history of having suffered violence in the
workplace in the past 12 months. Two hundred and sixty HCW were eligible
to participate based on inclusion criteria.
The study was approved by the Institutional Committee on Bioethics in
Health, Faculty of Medicine, Eduardo Mondlane University and Central
Hospital of Maputo (registration number CIBS FM & HCM 097/2018).
Data were entered into SPSS 20.0. The analysis cross tabulated sex of
the HCW with other categorical variables testing statistical
significance with either Fisher Exact test, Pearson or likelihood ratio
chi-square. Means were compared using ANOVA.