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Association between characteristics of nursing teams and patients' aggressive behavior in closed psychiatric wards

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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.

Reference Doedens, P., Vermeulen, J., ter Riet, G., Boyette, L. L., Latour, C., & de Haan, L. (2022). Association between characteristics of nursing teams and patients' aggressive behavior in closed psychiatric wards. Perspectives in Psychiatric Care, 58(4), 2592-2600. https://doi.org/10.1111/ppc.13099
Published by  Urban Vitality 1 October 2022

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Oct 2022

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Jentien Vermeulen
Lindy Lou Boyette
Lieuwe de Haan

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