Investigation of the relationship between occupational image and exposure to spousal violence and acceptance of spousal violence among clinician nurses

This study, which was planned to investigate the Relationship Between Occupational Image and Exposure to Spousal Violence and Acceptance of Spousal Violence among Clinician Nurses, was conducted as a descriptive and cross-sectional study. The sample of the study consisted of 306 married nurses working in Van Regional Training and Research Hospital. 'Sociodemographic Information Form', 'Nursing Image Scale' and 'Duty Violence Acceptance Scale' were used as data collection tools. Data were collected between January and May 2024. SPSS 27 package program was used in the evaluation of the data and the data were analyzed by considering a 95% confidence interval and 5% significance. Data were evaluated with descriptive statistics, independent groups t test, one-way analysis of variance, Pearson correlation analysis, Mann Whitney U test, Kruskal Wallis test and Spearman Rank correlation analysis. In the study, it was determined that 27.1% of the participants were exposed to spousal violence; the mean total score of the "Nursing Image Scale" was 69.17±6.799 and the mean total score of the "Acceptance of Couple Violence Scale" was 14.94±7.191. It was determined that there was no statistically significant difference between the mean scores of the participants' "Nursing Image Scale'' and their status of experiencing violence (p>0.05); there was a weakly significant negative correlation between the mean scores of the "Nursing Image Scale'' and the mean total scores of the "Couple Violence Acceptance Scale" (p<0.05). As a result, it was determined that nurses' acceptance of violence levels were low and their perceptions of professional image were above average; there was no significant difference between nurses' perceptions of nursing image and their exposure to violence, but there was a weak significant relationship between their perceptions of nursing image and their acceptance of violence.