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 …

Background Patient aggression is a longstanding problem in general hospital nursing. Staff
training is recommended to tackle workplace aggression originating from patients or visitors …

Aim To understand violence on acute mental health units according to staff and service user
perspectives and experiences. Background The collateral damage of violence in acute …

Accessible summary This paper reports the thoughts and feelings experienced by registered
mental health nurses caring for distressed and/or disturbed service users in acute inpatient …

BACKGROUND: Experts recommend staff training to prevent and manage aggressive
situations involving patients or their relatives. However, in many countries this subject is not …

Background Aggressive situations occurring within mental health services can harm service
users, staff, and the therapeutic environment. There is a consensus that the aggression …

Abstract Title. The Management of Aggression and Violence Attitude Scale (MAVAS): a
cross‐national comparative study. Aim. This paper is a report of a study to determine the …

One of the five overarching principles of the Mental Health Act: Code of Practice is to provide
patients with care and treatment which is least restrictive whilst encouraging recovery and …

Background: For a reduction in the use of coercive interventions it will be necessary to
identify patients at risk. The aim of this study was to explore the impact of basic patient …

Aggression and violence (A/V) in mental health care are all too frequent occurrences; they
produce a wide range of deleterious impacts on the individual client, staff, organizations …