The Violence Prevention Community Meeting: A Multi-Site Study.

Autor: Lanza M; Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, Bedford, MA. Electronic address: marilyn.lanza@va.gov., Ridenour M; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Morgantown, WV., Hendricks S; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Morgantown, WV., Rierdan J; University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA., Zeiss R; Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC., Schmidt S; Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, Bedford, MA., Lovelace J; Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, Bedford, MA., Amandus H; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Morgantown, WV.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Archives of psychiatric nursing [Arch Psychiatr Nurs] 2016 Jun; Vol. 30 (3), pp. 382-6. Date of Electronic Publication: 2016 Jan 09.
DOI: 10.1016/j.apnu.2016.01.003
Abstrakt: Objective: The Violence Prevention Community Meeting (VPCM) is a specialized form of community meeting in which avoiding violence and promoting non-violent problem solving and interpersonal civility are focal points. A nationwide study to assess the VPCM as an effective intervention to reduce workplace violence was undertaken.
Participants: Seven acute locked psychiatric units of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) throughout the United States participated in the study.
Methods: All patients and all staff on the seven in-patient locked psychiatry units participated in the intervention (VPCM) or as a control (treatment as usual). The study was 21weeks at each site. The three time periods were pre-treatment weeks 1-3, treatment weeks 4-18, and post-treatment weeks 19-21. The VPCM was conducted during the treatment weeks.
Results: Overall rates of aggression declined by 0.6% (95% CI: -5.6%, 6.5%; nonsignificant) per week in the intervention hospitals and by 5.1% (95% CI: 0.4%, 9.6%; significant) per week for the control hospitals.
Conclusions: Aggression decreased for both the intervention and control hospitals which could be due to enrollment in a research study and thus being more aware of their ability to address workplace violence at their site.
(Published by Elsevier Inc.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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