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Abstract
Violence is defined as’ the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened against a group or community that resulting in injury, death. Psychological harm, mal-development or deprivation (World Health Organization, 2019).
Workplace violence is the intentional use of power, threatened or actual, against another person or against a group, in work-related circumstances, that either results in or has a high degree of likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, mal development, or deprivation (Cooper & Swanson, 2019).
Predictors of workplace violence
Several predictive and protective factors of workplace violence, with specific regard to physically aggressive behaviour, higher levels of anger expression did predict aggressive behaviour, while hostility was also, predictive. Other predictors of aggressive and violent behaviour that found was (i.e., lifetime substance use disorders, early age at the first contact with DMHs, longer illness duration) (Stefano et al., 2019).
Aim of the study:
This study aimed to Assess-nurses’ perception toward predictors of violence behaviour among psychiatric patient in work place.
Research question:
• What are nurses’ perceptions toward predictors of violence behaviour among psychiatric patient in work?
• What are the predictors of violence behaviour among psychiatric patients?
Research design:
¬This is a descriptive design.
Research setting:
This study was conducted at inpatient department of El- Abassia Governmental Hospital for Psychiatric Mental Health, which is affiliated to general secretariat of mental health in Egypt. About 700 psychiatric mental health nurses were working in the hospital.
Subject of the study:
- Study subject:
The sample included of mental health nurses at the inpatient department of El-Abassia Governmental Hospital for Mental Health. Total number was100 of mental health nurses by a convenient sample technique.
Tools of data collection:
The tools used for the study consist of an interviewing questionnaire and observation checklist.
I- Interviewing questionnaire:
The interview questionnaire was designed by the researcher based on related literature review consists of two parts:
Part 1: Socio-demographic sheet:
It was designed by the researcher to collect data about psychiatric nurses, it contained the following items: Sex, age, marital status, educational level, years of experience, current Job, training courses.
Part 2: Questionnaire to assess nurse’s awareness of the predictors of aggressive patients:
It was constructed by the researcher after reviewing literature in this field. This section included nurses awareness of the predictors of aggressive patients.
2- Questionnaire to measure nurses perceptions of the predictors of patient aggression, It was be developed by the researcher
This questionnaire has been developed to assist individuals in identifying the frequency with which they have been confronted with aggressive or violent behaviour during the last year in the course of their professional work as a health care worker in psychiatry.
The main finding of the present study reached to the following conclusion:
More than one third among nurses were more than10 years of experience.
The majority of nurses were had training courses about violence and forecast the signs of violence that will start to appear on a patient.
More than two third of nurses’ awareness of signs of violence in psychiatric patients most susceptible to violence.
A positive relation between nurse knowledge and experience toward predictors of violence behaviour among psychiatric patient in work place.
A significant positive correlation between nurses’ knowledge and experience toward predictors of violence behaviour among psychiatric patient in work place.
Conclusions of this study are:
Based on the results and research question of the present study it can be concluded that:
• More than one third among nurses was more than10 years of experience.
• The majority nurses were had training courses about on violence and forecast the signs of violence that will start to appear on a patient.
• More than two third of nurses’ awareness of signs of violence in psychiatric patients most susceptible to violence.
• A positive relation between nurse knowledge and experience toward predictors of violence behaviour among psychiatric patient in work place.
• A significant positive correlation between nurses’ knowledge and experience toward predictors of violence behaviour among psychiatric patient in work place
Recommendations of the study were as follow:
The result of this study projected, the following recommendations:
In research:
1) Replication of the current study on large sample and different hospitals settings to be able to generalize the results.
2) Further study is recommended to identify effectiveness of nursing intervention to increase nurse’s awareness work place violence.
In services:
1) Educational training program for psychiatric nurses to improve their communication skills to manage work place violence in their health care setting.
2) Psychological supportive nurse’s session to help psychiatric nurse’s manage their Psychological problems.
3) Development of interventions to psychiatric nurse’s to prevent and respond to patient violence, as well as support nurse working with violent patients.