title: Workplace Violence and Mental Illness (Criminal Justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC))
author:  Kristine M. Empie 
description: Kristine M. Empie is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Corrections at Minnesota State University, Mankato. She earned her Ph.D. in 2002 from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
zlib_text: International  Journal  of
  Environmental Research
  and Public Health
  Article
  Workplace Violence and Its Eﬀects on Burnout and
  Secondary Traumatic Stress among Mental Healthcare
  Nurses in Japan
  Yudai Kobayashi, Misari Oe *
  , Tetsuya Ishida, Michiko Matsuoka, Hiromi Chiba and
  Naohisa Uchimura
  Department of Neuropsychiatry, Kurume University School of Medicine, Asahi-machi 67,
  Kurume 830-0011, Japan
  * Correspondence: oe_misari@kurume-u.ac.jp
  Received: 17 March 2020; Accepted: 14 April 2020; Published: 16 April 2020
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  Abstract: Workplace violence (WPV) in healthcare settings has drawn attention for over 20 years,
  yet few studies have investigated the association between WPV and psychological consequences. Here,
  we used a cross-sectional design to investigate (1) the 12-month prevalence of workplace violence
  (WPV), (2) the characteristics of WPV, and (3) the relationship between WPV and burnout/secondary
  traumatic stress among 599 mental healthcare nurses (including assistan