Monitoring risk assessment on an acute psychiatric ward: Effects on aggression, seclusion and nurse behaviour.

ABSTRACT: Evidence of risk assessment procedures is scarce and inconclusive. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effects of risk assessment on aggression and the use of coercive interventions in an acute psychiatric admission setting. In addition, we evaluated nurse behaviour before and after the use of risk assessment. To take the fluctuations with regard to aggression and coercive interventions into account, we allowed 26 weeks for baseline measurements, followed by a 26 weeks steady-state period after the implementation of the risk assessment instrument. Contrary to expectations, no positive effects of risk assessment were found on aggression or on coercive interventions. Time spent in seclusion increased significantly with more than 10 hours on average after implementation. Furthermore, the

SUBMITTER: Florisse EJR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7531854 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature