Violence against psychiatric trainees (VAPT) international study
EFPT Research Working Group
Dear colleague,
Violence against psychiatric trainees (VAPT) is an international project within the European Federation of Psychiatric Trainees (EFPT) which aims to assess the relevance and impact in different countries of assaults/aggressions to psychiatric trainees/residents by patients during their daily clinical work. Acknowledging that patients with mental disorders are not intrinsically violent, EFPT wants to raise awareness, improve the prevention and management policies and fight against stigma.
Definitions of assault and types: 1. Physical assault: contact by another person with intent to harm, including punching, kicking, slapping, biting, stabbing, grabbing, spitting, wrestling to the ground, pinning to the floor, spitting and/or throwing objects directly. 2. Sexual assault: unwanted sexual contacts, including rape, attempted rape, fondling, forced kissing and/or exposing. 3. Verbal assault: racial slurs, other derogatory comments, statements meant to frighten and/or threaten staff and staff families and/or any other threats to safety, life and property.
We would very much appreciate your kind collaboration by answering this short anonym questionnaire (it will only take 5 minutes), whether or not you have suffered any assaults. Furthermore, to ensure representability, it would be important to collect as many different answers as possible, so it would be great if you answer it in any case and ask your colleagues to do the same.
Informed consent: This survey does not as from you any sensitive identifiable data. The questionnaire includes some sensitive questions about the different kind of aggression you may have received, but no explicit details are required. By answering any question in this survey and submitting the results you are providing the research team with your consent for the storage, analysis, and publication of your responses, which will be anonym and aggregated with other responses. The research team refuses to track your IP nor give any potentially identifiable data from you to third parties.