Journal title MECOSAN
Author/s Piero Borgia, Silvia Briani, Eva Colombo, Eleonora Giordani, Stefano A. Inglese, Nicola Pinelli
Publishing Year 2026 Issue 2025/134
Language Italian Pages 20 P. 173-192 File size 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/mesa2025-134oa22040
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Violence against healthcare workers is currently a widespread problem throughout the world. The consequences affect both individual workers, with risks to their safety and health, and healthcare organizations, users, and their relationship with facilities.
Although a series of regulatory measures have been approved in Italy in recent years to protect healthcare and social-healthcare workers, acts of physical and verbal violence against them are widespread and increasingly serious, with a number of issues still to be clarified and a need to develop further strategies to contain the risk.
In order to obtain a clearer picture and to be able to outline the type and numbers of incidents more accurately, FIASO has promoted a survey, which it plans to repeat annually, on the epidemiology of incidents of violence against healthcare workers and the methods adopted to deal with them. The results show that assaults appear to have increased slightly between 2023 and 2024, record the good results achieved by the measures put in place for risk prevention and containment, and confirm the need to invest in integrated strategies capable of addressing the multiple aspects that characterize its complexity.
Keywords: violence;assaults;healthcare workers;risk;prevention;safety;information;training;communication;National Health Service
Piero Borgia, Silvia Briani, Eva Colombo, Eleonora Giordani, Stefano A. Inglese, Nicola Pinelli, Epidemiologia della violenza nei confronti degli operatori sanitari. I risultati della survey FIASO 2025 in "MECOSAN" 134/2025, pp 173-192, DOI: 10.3280/mesa2025-134oa22040