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Depressive Symptoms of Workplace Violence Exposed Subjects in Korea
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Original Article Depressive Symptoms of Workplace Violence Exposed Subjects in Korea
Chang Bum Byun, Kan woo Youn, Kyunghee Jung-Choi, Yunho Cho, Domyung Paek

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35371/kjoem.2009.21.4.314
Published online: December 31, 2009
1Seoul Regional Ministry of Labor, Wonjin Institute for Occupational &Environmental Health, Korea.
2Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Korea.
3Korean Occupational Safety and Health Research Institute, Korea.
4Department of Occupational & Environmental Medicine, School of Public Health, Seoul National University, Korea. paekdm@snu.ac.kr
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Abstract

OBJECTIVES
This study was conducted to evaluate the association between workplace violence and depression METHODS: In total, 2236 employees who were providing services at hotels, casinos and amusement halls were used in this study. A structured questionnaire was used to assess exposures to violence, which was classified into physical violence, verbal violence, sexual harassment and bullying together with jobs and sociodemographic factors. Depressive symptoms were assessed using the Korean Beck depression inventory-II (BDI-II). Those with total BDI-II score over 22 points were defined as people with depression.
RESULTS
Prevalence of depression among subjects exposed to any violence was higher than those who were not exposed to violence. After adjusting covariates, the odds ratio of depression was 2.47 (95% CI;1.13~5.39) for sexually harassed male subjects (n=72, 4.90%), 3.22 (95% CI; 1.51~6.87) for bullied male subjects (n=570, 38.83%), and 2.57 (95% CI; 1.52~4.32) for bullied female subjects (n=447, 58.20%).
CONCLUSIONS
The results of this study suggest that depression can be an important psychological issue to those exposed to workplace violence in Korea. First of all, acknowledgement of the problem should be made in the workplace. Exalting public awareness and transforming work ethics and culture is cardinal to making this a social rather than an individual problem.

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