Episodes of aggression were monitored, using a questionnaire, for a 6-month period in the female observation ward of a General Psychiatric Hospital. The results show that: a small group of schizophrenic patients were responsible for most of the incidents; nursing staff and other patients fell victim equally frequently; few of the incidents were predictable. Psychotic symptoms appear to be the m...

A 5-day course designed to train psychiatric hospital staff verbal and physical methods of preventing violence and injury when dealing with upset patients was taught to 89 staff from maximum and less secure wards. Compared to no-treatment controls, experimental subjects improved significantly on four tests of crisis-related tests and knowledge. Questionnaire and self-report measures from staff ...

A new approach to mental health nursing has reduced violent incidents on acute wards and cut the average length of stay by a quarter, according to research published today in Nursing Standard.

[Purpose] The convalescent rehabilitation ward (CRW) plays an important role for hip fracture patients in Japanese super-aged society. The purpose of this study is to clarify the usefulness of the CRW concomitant with acute wards in a single hospital. [Subjects and Methods] 110 hip fracture patients were evaluated; 63 patients were moved from acute wards to the CRW in the same hospital (Group C...

OBJECTIVE This study aims to examine the legal procedure that women who are charged with killing their children experience and to compare the variables that discriminate between those found guilty and those who received a medical disposition. METHOD The sample comprises 32 adult women who killed their biological children in the province of Quebec over an 11-year period (1981 to 1991). RESUL...

Izolacyjny aspekt opieki psychiatrycznej determinuje naukowe i teoretyczne refleksje na temat pracy terapeutycznej z pacjentami w głębokich kryzysach psychicznych. Zachodzące współcześnie zmiany tym obszarze implikują potrzebę dzielenia się nie tylko postępami zakresie szeroko rozumianej wczesnej rehabilitacji pacjentów, ale także skutecznymi praktykami oddziaływań psychoterapeutycznych wobec p...

OBJECTIVE Literature on the prevalence and clinical presentation of South African psychiatric HIV positive patients as well as their management is lacking. This study was performed to investigate these parameters. METHOD A prospective study to investigate the prevalence and clinical presentation of HIV positive psychiatric female patients admitted to an acute ward (female psychiatric ward Ce...