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  • Published on: 2 November 2018
    A qualitative research method should be used in the survey which study the impact of workplace violence and compassionate behaviour in hospitals on stress, sleep quality and subjective health status among Chinese nurses
    • Meijuan Jin, postgraduate School of nursing,Nantong University
    • Other Contributors:
      • Cheng Ji, Professor

    Authors:
    Meijuan Jin, School of Nursing, Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu, PR China
    Cheng Ji, Nantong higher vocational and technical school, Jiangsu, PR China
    Correspondence:
    Cheng Ji, Nantong higher vocational and technical school, Jiangsu, PR China
    E-mail: nantongjinzi@163.com

    To the Editor：
    I have read the article written by Shu-E Zhang and her coworkers on Impact of workplace violence and compassionate behaviour in hospitals on stress, sleep quality and subjective health status among Chinese nurses: a cross-sectional survey1 with great interest and respect. The authors used a cross-sectional online survey study to describe the current state of workplace violence and compassionate behaviour towards nurses and to explain how they affect nurses’ stress, sleep quality and subjective health status. Approximately 75.4% participants had experienced some form of violence. They found that WPV can damage nurses’ health outcomes,while compassionate behaviours were beneficial to their health outcomes. A harmonious nursing environment should be provided to minimise threats to nurses’ health status.Although we are agree with this view, there are some opinions against this article.
    Firstly, the authors used the cross-sectional online survey study and there were about 75.4% effective response which we think is a quite low level. That would make the results unrepresentative and give rise to...

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    None declared.