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Table 1 Incidence rates of verbal abuse and physical violence in several countries

From: A survey of workplace violence against physicians in the hospitals, Myanmar

Author’s name

Published year [reference number]

Country

Verbal abuse (%)

Physical violence (%)

Ness et al.

2000 [1]

United Kingdom

54.0

6.0

Forrest et al.

2011 [2]

Australia

58.0

18.0

Terzoni et al.

2015 [3]

Italy

40.2

11.5

Behnam et al.

2001 [5]

USA

75.0

21.0

Kitaneh et al.

2012 [6]

Palestine

62.2

23.2

Da Silva et al.

2015 [7]

Brazil

52.5

2.3

Abed et al.

2016 [8]

Barbados

60.0

3.0

Erdur et al.

2015 [9]

Turkey

43.1

5.2

Shi et al.

2015 [10]

China

92.8

81.0