Aggressive Incidents Towards Staff by Elderly Patients With Dementia in a Long-Stay Ward

Freyne, Aideen; Wrigley, Margo

doi:10.1002/(sici)1099-1166(199601)11:1<57::aid-gps290>3.0.co;2-z

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“…Freyne and Wrigley report that such violence takes many forms, including physical attacks, verbal abuse, and also threatening actions. 30 Verbal abuse, being the most common form of patient aggression, is estimated to be perpetrated on anywhere between 33% and 87% of home care staff. 11,16,29,32 The prevalence of actual or threatened physical assault against clinical health care staff is estimated to be between 17% and 74%.…”

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“…The first category of intervention includes ensuring accurate prevalence and incident reporting of client violence, as well as removing barriers to reporting client aggression and violence. 8,11,[29][30][31][32] The second element for predicting or preventing patient aggression is the development of accurate predictors and indicators of patient aggression. 5,[25][26][33][34][35][36][37] Third, the literature review suggests conducting accurate and thorough risk assessment aid providers and agencies to develop programs more adequately preparing staff providing the in-home services.…”

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Enhancing Home Care Staff Safety Through Reducing Client Aggression and Violence in Noninstitutional Care Settings

Campbell

McCoy

Burg

et al. 2013

Home Health Care Management & Practice

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The problematic occurrence of client violence and patient aggression toward health care workers is pervasive, with studies and reports finding that home health care workers experience one of the highest rates of client violence than any other career field. With the recent passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in 2010, traditional health care delivery in institutional care settings is increasingly shifted to service delivery venues in noninstitutional care settings. During this transition, greater numbers of health care workers are providing services in patients’ private homes, increasing the potential risk to staff safety and well-being in these settings.

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Enhancing Home Care Staff Safety Through Reducing Client Aggression and Violence in Noninstitutional Care Settings

Campbell

McCoy

Burg

et al. 2013

Home Health Care Management & Practice

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“…Taylor, 2000). Meanwhile, research suggests that ensuring accurate incident and prevalence reporting are key elements in the prevention of client violence against health-care workers (Bussing & Hodge, 2004; Franz et al, 2010; Freyne & Wrigley, 1996; Geiger-Brown et al, 2012; Macdonald & Sirotich, 2001; Schulte et al, 1998).…”

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“…The violent incident may also be defined by the worker’s perceptions and the context in which the incident occurred” (Spencer & Munch, 2003, p. 534). As these definitions suggest, client aggression and violence can take many forms, to include physical attacks, verbal abuse as well as threatening behavior (Freyne & Wrigley, 1996; Krug, Mercy, Dahlberg, & Zwi, 2002).…”

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Incident Reporting by Health-Care Workers in Noninstitutional Care Settings

Campbell

2016

Trauma, Violence, & Abuse

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Patient-perpetrated violence and aggression toward health-care workers, specifically in noninstitutional health-care settings, cause concerns for both health-care providers and the clients whom they serve. Consequentially, this presents a public affairs problem for the entire health-care system, which the current research has failed to adequately address. While the literature overwhelmingly supports the assertion that accurate incident reporting is critical to fully understanding patient violence and aggression toward health-care providers, there is limited research examining provider decision making related to reporting incidents of patient violence and aggression targeted toward the provider. There is an even greater paucity of research specifically examining this issue in noninstitutional health-care settings. It is therefore the objective of this review to examine this phenomenon across disciplines and service settings in order to offer a comprehensive review of incident reporting and to examine rationales for providers reporting or failing to report instances of patient violence and aggression toward health-care providers.

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“…Although some researchers (e.g., Freyne & Wrigley, 1996;Schaufeli, 1990) have examined workplace aggression from the perspective of workers who admit to having perpetrated aggression against clients, no studies have been conducted among HCWs in AIDS care in Nigeria. Nevertheless, in various international studies such as those of Jewkes, Abrahams, and Mvo (1998) in South Africa, Jeffery, Jeffery, and Lyon (1989) in North India, Mernissi (1975) in Morocco, and Sargent and Bascope (1996) in Jamaica, the authors have reported that, in order to assert their authority and to control patient behaviors, nurses in public-health settings have employed humiliation, verbal coercion, and even physical violence.…”

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Burnout and Fear of Contagion as Factors in Aggressive Tendency of Health-Care Workers Treating People with Aids

Ojedokun¹,

Idemudia²,

Kute³

2013

soc behav pers

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We investigated the roles of burnout and perceived fear of contagion with AIDS among 130 medical practitioners and 112 nurses (N = 242) working in AIDS care in Nigeria, in relation to the level of their aggressive tendency toward people living with AIDS (PLWAs). Participants completed scales concerning perceived AIDS anxiety, burnout, and aggressive tendency. Results showed that perceived fear of AIDS, burnout, and category of staff (medical practitioner or nurse), respectively, were associated with the tendency to perpetrate aggression against PLWAs. The implication of these findings is that stakeholders in the health-care system in Nigeria and elsewhere should address any aggressive tendency of health workers in public-health settings in order to prevent the occurrence of actual physical aggression against clients. We recommend that consideration should be given to the factors implicated in this study when intervention strategies are being developed.

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Aggressive Incidents Towards Staff by Elderly Patients With Dementia in a Long-Stay Ward

Cited by 25 publications

References 18 publications

Enhancing Home Care Staff Safety Through Reducing Client Aggression and Violence in Noninstitutional Care Settings

Enhancing Home Care Staff Safety Through Reducing Client Aggression and Violence in Noninstitutional Care Settings

Incident Reporting by Health-Care Workers in Noninstitutional Care Settings

Burnout and Fear of Contagion as Factors in Aggressive Tendency of Health-Care Workers Treating People with Aids

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