Violence against healthcare professionals is a structural crisis that threatens the quality of healthcare services, patient safety, and the sustainability of the healthcare system. In preventing this crisis, the “social awareness framework,” which determines the boundaries between the normalization and rejection of violent acts, plays a critical role.
However, the structural impact of societal attitudes on perceptions of violence has not yet been sufficiently examined. The aim of this study is to evaluate society’s perception of violence against healthcare workers within the dimension of social awareness and to examine the differentiating effects of socio-demographic variables on these perceptions.
Data were collected through face-to-face surveys with 400 participants in the city center of Çorum between 2023 and 2024, using the questionnaire titled “Evaluation of the Perception of Violence Against Healthcare Professionals among Individuals Applying to Healthcare Institutions” developed by İlhan et al.
(2013). The findings revealed that the vast majority of participants regarded violence as an unjust behavior. The analyses indicated that variables such as age, marital status, income level, and regular medication use create statistically significant differences in perceptions of violence (p