Identifying key factors associated with aggression on acute inpatient psychiatric wards

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 260-271

  Bowers, Len ^a   Allan, Teresa ^a   Simpson, Alan ^a   Jones, Julia ^a   Van Der Merwe, Marie ^a   Jeffery, Debra ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITAL SUBDIVISIONS AND COMPONENTS; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NURSING STAFF; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VIOLENCE;

AGGRESSION; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENGLAND; HOSPITAL UNITS; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VIOLENCE;

EID: 68249085601     PISSN: 01612840     EISSN: 10964673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01612840802710829     Document Type: Article

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