Lihua Fan

TL;DR: Perceived organisational support served as a mediator between workplace violence, job satisfaction, burnout and turnover intention, and it had a significantly negative impact on turnover intention.

TL;DR: The results show a high prevalence of workplace violence in Chinese tertiary hospitals, which should not be ignored and the effects of social support on workplace behaviors suggest that it has practical implications for interventions to promote the stability of physicians’ teams.

TL;DR: Exposure to WPV significantly affected the psychological stress, sleep quality and self-reported health of doctors in China and psychological stress partially mediated the relationship between work-related violence and health damage.

TL;DR: Workplace violence is frequent in China’s tertiary and county–level hospitals; its occurrence is especially frequent in the emergency and paediatric departments and it is necessary to cope with workplace violence by developing effective control strategies at individual, hospital and national levels.

TL;DR: High quality of work life perceived by the nurses enhances their job embeddedness and affective commitment and thus reduces their intention to leave the job, and the hypothesised positive relation of quality ofWork life with job embeddeds and affectives and negative on turnover intention are confirmed.