Abstract

ARCE GOMEZ, Dora Lidia et al. Impact of the main biopsychosocial risk factors of violence on the working student. MEDISAN [online]. 2013, vol.17, n.3, pp. 507-513. ISSN 1029-3019.

A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out in 32 first year-students of nursing, randomly selected from 85 members of the course for workers at the Faculty of Nursing, belonging to the Medical University of Santiago de Cuba, during November and December 2011, on request of their written consent to participate in the research. The variables for this were age, people using violence, types of violence and self-esteem. Among the main results were the primacy of immediate superior as a perpetrator of aggressive behaviors, verbal abuse as modality used for insult and low self-esteem. It was also found that this biopsychosocial problem still affects many women in Cuba and in the world, which will require joint actions of different sectors of the society and of the battered woman to reduce or eliminate its occurrence.

Keywords : worker; student; workplace violence; health promotion; disease prevention; health education.