Workplace bullying in junior doctors: questionnaire survey

Abstract

An anonymous questionnaire was sent out with BMA News Review to 1000 doctors with job grades from house officer to senior registrar, randomly selected from the BMA members' mailing list. The questionnaire collected information about the participant's age, sex, job grade, and ethnic group. Participants were presented with a definition of bullying and asked to indicate whether they had been subjected to it in the past 12 months and whether they had witnessed others being bullied. They also completed a bullying scale which asked whether they had experienced 21 bullying behaviours from peers, senior staff, or managers in the past 12 months.1