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Medical staff, particularly nursing staff, have been subjected to a high level of violence from patients, visitors, and coworkers.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Objective<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Aimed to assess the magnitude and associated factors of workplace violence among nurses working in public hospitals in northeast Ethiopia.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>A multicenter hospital-based cross-sectional study was employed among 568 nurses using census method among public hospitals in Northeast Ethiopia in 2022. The data was gathered using a pretested structured questionnaire and entered into Epi Data version 4.7 before being exported to SPSS version 26 for analysis. Furthermore, at 95% CI, multivariable binary logistic regression was used, and variables with P-values of &lt;.05 were found to be significant.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Result<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Out of the total 534 respondents, 56% had been exposed to workplace violence in the past 12 months, with verbal abuse accounting for 264 (49.4%), physical abuse 112 (21%), bullying 93 (17.2%), and sexual harassment 40 (7.5%). Being female nurses (adjusted odds ratio [AOR\u2009=\u20094.85, 95% CI (3.178, 7.412)]), having an age \u2009&gt;\u200941 [AOR\u2009=\u20092.27, 95% CI (1.101, 4.701)], nurses who had drunk alcohol in the past 30 days [AOR\u2009=\u20097.94, 95% CI (3.027, 20.86)], nurses who drink alcohol in their lifetime [AOR\u2009=\u20093.14, 95% CI (1.328, 7.435)], and male patients [AOR\u2009=\u20094.84, 95% CI (2.496, 9.415)] were positive predictors of workplace violence.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion and recommendation<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>In this study, the magnitude of workplace violence among nurses was relatively higher. Nurses\u2019 sex, age, alcohol habit, and sex of patients were associated with workplace violence. 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