@article{ref1,
title="Staff attitudes towards aggression in health care: a review of the literature",
journal="Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing",
year="2005",
author="Jansen, G. J. and Dassen, Theo W. N. and Groot Jebbink, G.",
volume="12",
number="1",
pages="3-13",
abstract="The aim of this literature review was to explore the attitudes of health care workers towards inpatient aggression and to analyse the extent to which attitudes, as defined from a theoretical point of view, were addressed in the selected studies. Databases from 1980 up to the present were searched, and a content analysis was done on the items of the selected studies. The concepts 'cognition' and 'attitude' from the framework of 'The Theory of Reasoned Action' served as categories. The self-report questionnaire was the most common instrument used and three instruments specifically designed to measure attitudes were found. These instruments lacked profound validity testing. From a total of 74 items, two thirds focussed on cognitions and only a quarter really addressed attitudes towards aggression. Research was particularly concerned with the cognitions that nurses had about aggression, and attitudes were studied only to a limited extent. Researchers used different instruments, which makes it difficult to compare results across settings.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1351-0126",
doi="10.1111/j.1365-2850.2004.00772.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2850.2004.00772.x"
}