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

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    • Subject Terms:
      SHIFT systems; DISEASE incidence; RISK assessment; VIOLENCE against medical personnel; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; LOGISTIC regression analysis; ODDS ratio; DATA analysis software; PSYCHIATRIC hospitals; LONGITUDINAL method
    • Abstract:
      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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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