Stalking of Healthcare Professionals by Their Clients: The Prevalence, Motivation, and Effect

It is proposed that healthcare professionals are prone to be stalked by their patients, but many feel ashamed talk about it, believing they might have done something warrant the stalking. We undertook a rigorous review of literature with primitive goal highlighting noteworthy issues on stalking and psychologists patients. Databases such as PubMed Google Scholar were searched collate articles studies topic keywords “stalker, stalking, assaults, aggression, physicians”. From review, prevalence rate ranged between 6% - 53%. This huge variation was largely due inconsistencies in definition what constituted The common motives stalkers erotomania or misguided expectation sense resentment service dissatisfaction. Finally, it apparently right conclude that, medical doctors at risk being grounds dissatisfaction, mismanagement treatment processes resulting physical perceived client injuries. Whereas other psychiatrists more erotomaniac reasons.