Service user aggression and violence are associated with great costs and can cause injuries, absence, dissatisfaction and high turnover, and hence negatively influence quality of services.The MAP is a comprehensive staff education programme developed to help prevent and manage aggression and violence. The pilot study...
AIM To estimate the effect of nursing, shift and patient characteristics on patients’ aggression in clinical mental health care.DESIGN AND METHODS A follow-up study was performed to estimate the effect of nursing characteristics at shift level and patient characteristics on the incidence of aggression.FINDINGS The...
Rather than continue a debate largely based on professional or personal opinion, this presentation aims to introduce an evidence-based taxonomy of risk which has been developed to enhance an organisation's ablilty to make decisions regarding which restrictive interventions (restraint) are suitable for use within their...
Through using the Experience Sampling Method for nurses working on a High Intensive Care Unit in a large psychiatric hospital in the Netherlands different factors from the staff and the ward were studied to establish their association with the development of aggression within a naturalistic...
Purpose Little is known about the associations between Mild Intellectual Disability (MID) and Borderline Intellectual Functioning (BIF) and aggressive behaviour in general Mental Health Care.Aim. To establish the association between aggressive Behaviour and MID/BIF, analysing patient characteristics and diagnoses.Method 1174 out of 1565 consecutive...
Aim: In this study, we aim to gain insights in the self-harming behavior and in the relation with other aggressive behavior of patients admitted to a closed ward in a psychiatric hospital.Method: Data were gathered between September 2019 and January 2021. The Self-Harm Scale and...
Aggression posed by violent individuals is a major public health concern and to date, interventions to reduce aggression are found to be insufficient in doing just that. Aggressive behavior is associated with dysfunctions in the prefrontal cortex, of which the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex (DLPFC) and...
Background: Aggression is a major concern in psychiatric in-patient care. Nutritional supplementation has been found to reduce aggressive incidents in forensic populations and children with behavioural problems. Aims: To assess whether multivitamin, mineral and n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid supplementation would reduce the number of aggressive incidents...