Prevalence and risk factors of violence by psychiatric acute inpatients: a systematic review and meta-analysis

L Iozzino, C Ferrari, M Large, O Nielssen… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Background Violence in acute psychiatric wards affects the safety of other patients and the
effectiveness of treatment. However, there is a wide variation in reported rates of violence in …

[HTML][HTML] Workplace violence toward mental healthcare workers employed in psychiatric wards

G d'Ettorre, V Pellicani - Safety and health at work, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Workplace violence (WPV) against healthcare workers (HCWs) employed in
psychiatric inpatient wards is a serious occupational issue that involves both staff and …

Prevalence of physical violence in a forensic psychiatric hospital system during 2011–2013: Patient assaults, staff assaults, and repeatedly violent patients

C Broderick, A Azizian, R Kornbluh, K Warburton - CNS spectrums, 2015 - cambridge.org
IntroductionWe examined physical violence in a large, multihospital state psychiatric system
during 2011–2013, and associated demographic and clinical characteristics of violent …

Structured assessments for imminent aggression in mental health and correctional settings: Systematic review and meta-analysis

GL Dickens, LE O'Shea, M Christensen - International journal of nursing …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Structured risk assessment schemes can aid violence reduction in mental
health and correctional settings. However, the properties and effectiveness of schemes for …

Predicting aggressive patient behaviour in a hospital emergency department: an empirical study of security officers using the Brøset Violence Checklist

B Partridge, J Affleck - Australasian emergency care, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Introduction The Brøset Violence Checklist (BVC) is a six item checklist that rates
patients according to their risk of violence in the subsequent 24 h–a score of≥ 3 indicates a …

Characteristics of patients frequently subjected to pharmacological and mechanical restraint—a register study in three Norwegian acute psychiatric wards

M Knutzen, S Bjørkly, G Eidhammer, S Lorentzen… - Psychiatry …, 2014 - Elsevier
This retrospective study from three catchment-area-based acute psychiatric wards showed
that of all the pharmacologically and mechanically restrained patients (n= 373) 34 (9.1%) …

Sleep at night and association to aggressive behaviour; patients in a psychiatric intensive care unit

K Langsrud, H Kallestad, A Vaaler, R Almvik… - Psychiatry …, 2018 - Elsevier
Evaluations of associations between sleep at night and aggressive behaviour in Psychiatric
Intensive Care Units (PICU) are lacking. The aims were to explore if sleep duration or night …

The Short-Term Assessment of Risk and Treatability (START): A prospective study of inpatient behavior

NS Gray, R Benson, R Craig, H Davies… - … Journal of Forensic …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
Structured professional judgment guides (SPJs) have gained acceptance for the prediction
of future violence. We conducted a prospective study of 44 psychiatric inpatients with a …

California state hospital violence assessment and treatment (Cal-VAT) guidelines

SM Stahl, DA Morrissette, M Cummings, A Azizian… - CNS …, 2014 - cambridge.org
Here we provide comprehensive guidelines for the assessment and treatment of violence
and aggression of various etiologies, including psychotic aggression and impulsive …

Machine learning: An approach in identifying risk factors for coercion compared to binary logistic regression

F Hotzy, A Theodoridou, P Hoff… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Introduction: Although knowledge about negative effects of coercive measures in psychiatry
exists, its prevalence is still high in clinical routine. This study aimed at define risk factors …