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Time to return to work following workplace violence among health care and social workers

By Dawn Mooney on January 21, 2020

January 2020: A new paper by PWHS MSc graduate Kelvin Choi and postdoctoral fellow Esther Maas examines time to return-to-work (RTW) among health care and social workers from violence-related incidents compared with non-violence-related incidents in BC.

Published in Occupational & Environmental Medicine, the study found that workers with psychological injuries, and those in counselling and social work occupations and in long-term care and residential social services, took longer to RTW following a violence-related incident than workers with non-violence-related incidents.

Learn more about our work on violence prevention: Realist evaluation of violence prevention education in health care

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