Quality of Resident Violence Risk Assessments in Psychiatric Emergency Settings

Assessment of Violence and Aggression in Psychiatric Settings: Descriptive Approaches

Today aggression and violence pose a major problem for public health and criminal justice systems. Aggression usually cause harm and injuries to either self, others or environment. Despite its noteworthy prevalence and serious consequences, methodological problems and difficulties derived from the innate nature of the pathology hampers research on violence and aggression. However, much has been...

Interrater agreement among psychiatrist in psychiatric emergency assessments.

OBJECTIVE The authors' purpose in this study was to investigate the interrater agreement among psychiatrists in psychiatric emergency service settings. The interrater reliability of many of the key concepts in psychiatric emergency service settings has not been studied. METHOD Videotapes of 30 psychiatric emergency service patient assessment interviews conducted by psychiatrists were shown to...

Determinants of violence in the psychiatric emergency service.

Resource Document on Psychiatric Violence Risk Assessment

Predictors of physical restraint in a psychiatric emergency setting

Background: Considering the negative consequences of using physical restraints, we conducted this study to identify patients who are more frequently restrained in a psychiatric emergency ward as an initial step to limit the use of restraint to the minimum possible.   Methods: This was a retrospective case control study conducted in Iran Psychiatric Hospital in Tehran, Iran. We reviewed the f...