A Prospective Study of Assaults on Staff by Psychiatric In-Patients
| Autor: | Virginia Tuckwell, Peter Cheung, Isaac Schweitzer, Kathleen Crowley |
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| Rok vydání: | 1997 |
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Hospitals Psychiatric Male medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Poison control 050109 social psychology Violence Suicide prevention Statistics Nonparametric Occupational safety and health 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Injury prevention Prevalence medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences In patient Prospective Studies Psychiatry Prospective cohort study Aged Analysis of Variance Inpatients business.industry Aggression Health Policy 05 social sciences Reproducibility of Results Human factors and ergonomics Professional-Patient Relations social sciences Middle Aged 030227 psychiatry Personnel Hospital Issues ethics and legal aspects Female medicine.symptom business Law |
| Zdroj: | Medicine, Science and the Law. 37:46-52 |
| ISSN: | 2042-1818 0025-8024 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/002580249703700112 |
| Popis: | This study determined the prevalence and features of assaults on staff, compared them with other aggressive incidents by psychiatric in-patients, and studied their relationship with the ward atmosphere. There were 181 physical assaults among 279 staff in two months, i.e. 389 assaults per 100 staff per year. A few patients were responsible for the majority of the assaults. Most assaults were triggered off by staff-patient interaction. About one-third of the staff were significantly psychologically shaken by the incidents. Patients were more likely to be provoked and used more severe means of aggression against staff than against other targets of aggression. There were no significant differences between the characteristics of patients who assaulted staff and those who had other targets of aggression. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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