@article{ref1,
title="Characteristics of international staff victims of psychiatric patient assaults: review of published findings, 2017-2022",
journal="Psychiatric quarterly",
year="2023",
author="Flannery, Raymond B. and Flannery, Georgina J.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Psychiatric patient assaults on staff are a worldwide occupational hazard for health care staff that results in medical injury, human suffering, and dollar cost expense. International research through 2000-2017 documented the continued frequency of these assaults and a continuing high risk for nursing personnel. This present paper reviewed the international published literature on staff victims of patient assaults during the next five-year period of 2017-2022. There were 39,034 assaults on 34,679 employee victims. The findings indicate that assaults on staff remain a serious worldwide issue as it has been since the 1990s and that nursing personnel continued to be at greater risk. Aggression management approaches, post-incident interventions, and an updated methodological inquiry are presented.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0033-2720",
doi="10.1007/s11126-022-10008-5",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11126-022-10008-5"
}