Background Psychomotor agitation is associated with different psychiatric conditions and
represents an important issue in psychiatry. Current recommendations on agitation in …

Although fairly frequent in psychiatric in-patient, episodes of aggression/violence are mainly
limited to verbal aggression, but the level of general health is significantly lower in nurses …

Youth who commit one type of violent offense tend to commit others; they also tend to
commit nonviolent offenses and have co-occurring problems such as substance abuse and …

Aim. This paper reports a study of staff and patient perspectives on the causes of patient
aggression and the way it is managed. Background. The incidence of aggression in …

Following an initial springboard study, a further more extensive piece of research was
conducted to identify and evaluate approaches used to manage patient aggression and …

The Brøset Violence Checklist (BVC) assesses confusion, irritability, boisterousness, verbal
threats, physical threats, and attacks on objects as either present or absent. It is …

Considerable research has attempted to delineate the demographic and clinical
characteristics of high‐risk psychiatric patients and identify salient modifiable aspects of …

BackgroundThere is a lack of research on the possible contribution of a structured risk
assessment to the reduction of aggression in psychiatric in-patient careAimsTo assess …

Background and Aims: Violent behaviour by forensic psychiatric inpatients is common. We
aimed to systematically review the performance of structured risk assessment tools for …

Papadopoulos C, Ross J, Stewart D, Dack C, James K, Bowers L. The antecedents of
violence and aggression within psychiatric in‐patient settings. Objective: To systematically …