FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE PREVENTION OF INTRAINSTITUTIONAL VIOLENCE (VIOLENCE PREVENTION, PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL).
Contributors: University of Pennsylvania. School of Nursing.
Published: 1991
Number of pages: 189
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Health Sciences, Mental Health.; Psychology, Clinical.
Description: A descriptive design was used to study patient violent behavior, methods of prevention of violent behavior, staff perception of cues to impending violence, and staff's ideas about violence prevention, in a private psychiatric hospital. The patient population was predominately white female, middle-class, and middle-aged, with some college education. Chart audit (N = 71), and staff interview (N = 18), were the data sources used to complement each other. Significant findings were that higher age was associated with more violence; two-way contracting was associated with less violence; there was staff agreement that environment, staffing patterns, and staff experience play important roles in violence potential on the unit; and nurses and technicians differed about which cue behaviors were important indicators of impending violence.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-01, Section: B, page: 0202.

Thesis (D.N.SC.)--UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF NURSING, 1991.

School code: 0839.