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Workplace Bullying: A National Survey Of Dental Hygienists, Savannah Dawn Sundburg
Workplace Bullying: A National Survey Of Dental Hygienists, Savannah Dawn Sundburg
Dental Hygiene Theses & Dissertations
Problem: Workplace bullying in health care affects career satisfaction, career longevity and patient outcomes. The purpose of this study was to determine if bullying was occurring in dental hygiene employment settings as well as its prevalence in a convenience sample of dental hygienists.
Methods: After IRB approval, 1200 subscribers to a professional dental hygiene journal were invited to participate. Employing the validated Negative Acts Questionnaire-Revised (NAQ-R), participants were asked to indicate how often they experienced 22 defined negative behaviors according to rate of occurrence (never, now and then or monthly, weekly or daily) over the past six months. Bullying was …