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Table 1 Summary of study characteristics included

From: Nurses’ rationale for underreporting of patient and visitor perpetrated workplace violence: a systematic review

Study (year)

Country

Design of study

Participants (n)

Method of data collection

Quality assessment

Zahra AN et al. (2018) [2]

Indonesia

Quantitative

RN (169)

Survey

High Quality

Arnetz JE et al. (2015) [12]

USA

Quantitative

Employees and RN’s (446)

Survey and retrospective reports

Acceptable

Copeland D et al. (2017) [13]

USA

Quantitative

ED staff and RN’s (147)

Survey

High Quality

Song C et al. (2020) [17]

China

Quantitative

RN (266)

Survey

High Quality

Al-Azzam M et al. (2018) [30]

Jordan

Quantitative

RN (137)

Questionnaire

High Quality

AlBashtawy M et al. (20150 [31]

Jordan

Quantitative

RN (227)

Survey

High Quality

Algwaiz WM et al. (2012) [22]

Saudi Arabia

Quantitative

Physician and RN’s (383)

Survey

High Quality

Alsharari AF et al. (2021) [23]

Saudi Arabia

Quantitative

RN (849)

Survey

High Quality

Alsmael MM et al. (2020) [32]

Saudi Arabia

Quantitative

HCW and RN’s (360)

Survey

High Quality

Babiarczyk B et al. (2020) [24]

Poland, Spain, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Turkey

Quantitative

RN (1089)

Survey

High Quality

Cannavò M et al. (2019) [33]

Italy

Quantitative

HCW and RN’s (322)

Survey

High Quality

Douglas K et al. (2019) [34]

Nigeria

Quantitative

RN (200)

Questionnaire

Acceptable

Fisekovic Kremic MB et al. (2016) [25]

Serbia

Quantitative

Staff and RN’s (1526)

Survey

High Quality

Garg R et al. (2019) [14]

India

Quantitative

Physicians, RNs, HCWs (394)

Survey

High Quality

Kitaneh M et al. (2012) [26]

Palestine

Quantitative

Physician and RN’s (240)

Questionnaire

High Quality

Kvas A et al. (2014) [11]

Slovenia

Quantitative

RN (692)

Survey and Questionnaire

Acceptable

Li P et al. (2018) [6]

China

Quantitative

GP’s and RN’s (830)

Survey

High Quality

Pompeii LA et al. (2016) [27]

USA

Mixed method

HCW and RN’s (5385)

Survey and Focus Groups

High Quality

Sato K et al. (2013) [28]

Japan

Quantitative

RN (1385)

Survey

High Quality

  1. HCW Healthcare Workers, RN Register Nurse, ED Emergency Department, GP General Practitioners