The extent of physical and psychological workplace violence experienced by prehospital personnel in Denmark: a survey

Table 1 Descriptive demographic characteristics of the respondents answering yes to stratified by physical violence and psychological violence from Danish study population of 584 individuals

	N (Physical violence)	N (Psychological violence)
Age, years:
18–29	15	27
30–39	58	104
40–49	49	93
50–59	18	38
\(\:\ge\:\)60	10	15
Sex:
Male	124	223
Female	25	53
Do not wish to answer	1	1
Healthcare region:
The Capital Region	48	70
Region Zealand	10	24
Region of Southern Denmark	54	87
Central Denmark Region	28	65
North Denmark Region	10	31
Profession:
Non-emergency patient transport personnel	5	7
EMTs	72	108
Paramedic	54	98
Prehospital physician	12	26
Emergency medical dispatcher	1	24
Technical dispatcher	0	1
Student	6	13
Years in your profession:
0–1	4	7
2–4	14	36
5–9	35	57
\(\:\ge\:\:\)10	97	177

In the Danish survey in appendix 1 the profession category EMTs was separated in two categories: Ambulance attendant and ambulance assistant. These categories were merged afterwards because they have the same clinical assignments and fall under the same description in English as an EMT

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