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 The feeling of prevention triggers the tendency to violence


The tension triggered by the COVID-19 epidemic among patients, relatives and other healthcare professionals increased the violence against healthcare professionals. Clinical Psychologist Ünal Erdem Elli, who evaluated the fact that the rates of violence in health reached the highest level of the last 11 years in the first 6 months of 2020, said: "During the pandemic process, an increase is observed due to the emergence of feelings of frustration in people in general.”


The Family Medicine Workers Union (AHESEN) announced that the rates of violence in health reached the highest level in the last 11 years in the first 6 months of 2020. Violence in health is most common in family health centers and emergencies that provide primary health care. Clinical Psychologist from Istanbul Gelisim University Ünal Erdem Elli, who made a statement on the subject, stated that people tend to violence as a result of the feeling of frustration, “People learn that they have lost their relatives without seeing them, this is an angering situation in itself. There is an experience in which people cannot reach their relatives and feel blocked. In our statements on violence in general, we say that prevention is an important trigger.”

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