An observational study in Workplace Violence and Burnout, Professionals, sponsored by Consorci Sanitari de l'Alt Penedès i Garraf. Recruiting at 7 sites in Spain. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-11-09.
Sponsored by Consorci Sanitari de l'Alt Penedès i Garraf · Observational
The goal of this observational study is to learn whether external workplace violence (violence by patients, relatives, or companions) is associated with poorer occupational well-being in healthcare workers aged 18 years or older who have regular face-to-face contact with patients or their families. The main questions it aims to answer are:
Participants will complete a single anonymous online survey about their experience of workplace violence, their occupational well-being, their working conditions, and the measures they consider most effective to reduce violence.
This multicenter cross-sectional study will be conducted in seven healthcare organizations with different profiles. Participants will be randomly selected from the staff census of each center, stratified by area or department, and invited to complete an anonymous online survey hosted on the REDCap platform of the sponsor. The survey includes the collateral effects dimension of the General Occupational Well-being Questionnaire (cBLG; somatization, exhaustion, and alienation scales; total score 13-91), 22 items of the Working Conditions Questionnaire (cCT; score 0-220), 6 ad hoc items on organizational practices (score 0-60), self-reported workplace violence in the past 12 months by type and intensity, and sociodemographic and occupational variables.
The primary analysis will compare mean collateral effects scores between workers with and without external workplace violence using Student's t test, followed by multivariable analyses adjusted for sex, age group, professional category, care setting, work shift, type of contract, and seniority. Subgroup analyses by sex, professional category, and center, and a dose-response analysis by violence intensity, are planned.
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Active healthcare workers of the participating centers whose work involves direct and regular contact with external users (patients, relatives, or companions), including clinical, technical, auxiliary, and administrative or front-desk staff
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Exclusion Criteria:
Workers who self-report at least one episode of external workplace violence (physical, verbal, symbolic, digital, or economic) in the past 12 months
Workers who report no episodes of external workplace violence in the past 12 months
Collateral effects of work (occupational well-being)
Sum of the somatization (5 items), exhaustion (4 items), and alienation (4 items) scales of the collateral effects dimension of the General Occupational Well-being Questionnaire (cBLG; Blanch et al.). Total score range: 13 to 91; higher scores indicate greater deterioration of occupational well-being.
Time frame: At survey completion (single time point)
Plan to share: Yes — IPD (without personal identification data) could be shared by requirement from other researchers after the end of the study, and only for research purposes and previous approval of promotor center of the study (CSAPG). Anyway, Spanish and European Union legal policy about data protection will strictly be followed (IPD will not be transferred outside European Union).
Supporting information: Study protocol
Time frame: After publication of main results of the study
Access criteria: IPD will be shared only for scientific research purposes and following the Spanish and European Union normative law about data protection. The requirements will be directed to the IP of the study. The IP will evaluate the request to verify and evaluate the data that is requested and the purposes for which it is requested. Next, the IP will transfer the request to the promotor center the study for the final decision.
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Started Feb 2026 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Dec 2026, 10 months after the start.
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