Abstract
Purpose:
Estimate the effect of nursing, shift, and patient characteristics on patients' aggression.
Design and Methods:
Follow-up study on a closed psychiatric ward was performed to estimate the effect of nursing team characteristics and patient characteristics on the incidence of aggression.
Findings:
The incidence of aggression (n = 802 in sample) was lower in teams with >75% male nurses. Teams scoring high on extraversion experienced more verbal aggression and teams scoring high on neuroticism experienced more physical aggression. Younger patients and/or involuntarily admitted patients were more frequently aggressive.
Practice Implications:
These findings could stimulate support for nurses to prevent aggression.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2592-2600 |
| Journal | Perspectives in Psychiatric Care |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue number | 4 |
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| Publication status | Published - Oct 2022 |
Funding
The authors thank the nurses of the psychiatric closed admission ward of Amsterdam UMC, location Academic Medical Center, and in particular, Sascha da Silva Curiel and Joey Remmers, for their support in this study. No external or intramural funding was received.