The aim of this study was to determine student nurses' attitudes towards professional
containment methods used in psychiatric wards and its relation to their perception of …

Aims and objective The aim of this study was to determine nurses' attitudes towards
professional containment methods and to explore the relationship between those attitudes …

Difficult and challenging behaviour by inpatients is a feature of acute psychiatric ward life.
Different methods are used to contain these behaviours, and there is international variation …

AIM: The aim of this study was to compare university student attitudes to containment with
that of psychiatric students. BACKGROUND: Nurses face the potential for aggression and …

Aim: To determine the incidence rate of forms of inpatient aggression towards nurses who
working on psychiatric wards; to identify their attitude to patient aggression, to the factors that …

Accessible summary• A key role of nursing staff in high secure hospitals is responding to
patients' aggressive behaviour.• Attitudes of staff in high secure hospitals may influence how …

Background Mental health nurses are exposed to patient aggression, and required to
manage and de-escalate aggressive incidents; coercive measures such as restraint and …

Seclusion and restraint are regularly used to manage patient aggression events in
psychiatric inpatient care, despite occupational safety concerns. There is currently a lack of …

Accessible Summary What is known on the subject? Application of physical restraint is a
common practice to protect service users and staff in psychiatric care. Nurses' attitudes …

Accessible summary What is known on the subject? Aggressive behaviour is a major
problem in clinical practice of mental health care and can result in the use of coercive …