Attitudes of clinical staff toward the causes and management of aggression in acute old age psychiatry inpatient units

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  McCann, Terence V ^a   Baird, John ^b   Muir Cochrane, Eimear ^c  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NorthWestern Mental Health   (Australia)

^c FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aggression; Attitudes; Elderly; Nurses; Old age psychiatry; Restraint; Seclusion; Survey

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGGRESSION; AGGRESSIVENESS; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CULTURAL SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; GERONTOPSYCHIATRY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; MENTAL PATIENT; NURSE; NURSING HOME; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PATIENT CARE; PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT; PSYCHIATRIST; REGISTERED NURSE; RESIDENTIAL CARE; SOCIAL WORKER; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; VIOLENCE; ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER; COMPLICATION; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; ETHICS; MEDICAL STAFF; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGGRESSION; AMBULATORY CARE; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; AUSTRALIA; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTERS; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NURSES; QUESTIONNAIRES; VIOLENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84897460783     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-14-80     Document Type: Article

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