The Relationship of Behavioral Cues to Assaultive Behavior

Marilyn Lewis Lanza, Herbert L. Kayne, Ivor Pattison, Carol Hicks and Shaheen Islam
Additional contact information
Marilyn Lewis Lanza: Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital
Herbert L. Kayne: Boston University School of Public Health
Ivor Pattison: Boston College School of Nursing
Carol Hicks: Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital
Shaheen Islam: New England Research Institute

Clinical Nursing Research, 1996, vol. 5, issue 1, 6-25

Abstract: The purpose of this 2-year, case control study was to determine whether differentiation between assaultive and nonassaultive patients can be made based on behavioral assessments and/or sociodemographic variables. For each assault incident the chart of the patient who assaulted and a randomly chosen patient who did not assault on that day were reviewed (N = 72 subjects or 26 pairs). Various scales were used to evaluate the subjects retrospectively (the day prior to the assault), and patients who assaulted staff were interviewed when possible. An analysis found no differences between patients who assaulted and controls on sociodemographic variables. Those who assaulted had significantly more prior assaults (p = .04) and more difficulty verbalizing angry feelings appropriately on their units (p

Date: 1996
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/105477389600500102 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:clnure:v:5:y:1996:i:1:p:6-25

DOI: 10.1177/105477389600500102

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Clinical Nursing Research
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().