Perceção dos profissionais da emergência pré-hospitalar portuguesa sobre a violência no local de trabalho

Throughout their career, professionals develop a perception of the reality that surrounds them. Each phenomenon brings experiences that are seen in a different and unique way by each professional. This work has the objective to study the perception of violence in the workplace by pre-hospital emergency professionals in the last 12 months. In terms of methodology, a 12 month quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional study was used, implemented at a continental level. The sample consisted of 628 pre-hospital emergency professionals who completed a questionnaire. Data were treated at the level of descriptive statistics. Despite the disagreement about the normality of violence in the workplace, it is still observed that part of the participants feel that violence is normal in the workplace. The professionals' perception of violence tends to provoke a change of opinion and alter tolerance towards the phenomenon of violence.