TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1990//
TI  - Intrahospital relocation of psychiatric patients and effects on aggression
JO  - Archives of psychiatric nursing
A1  - Thomas, M. D.
A1  - Ekland, E. S.
A1  - Griffin, M.
A1  - Hagerott, R. J.
A1  - Leichman, S. S.
A1  - Murphy, H.
A1  - Osborne, O. H.
SP  - 154
EP  - 160
VL  - 4
IS  - 3
N2  - Aggression is a recurring problem with psychiatric patients and can pose special problems on inpatient units. The purpose of this study were to identify changes in patients aggression as a consequence of routine individual relocation and to identify the relationship of certain variables with patterns of aggression. Using an adaptation of the Overt Aggression Scale (Yudofsky, Silver, Jackson, Endicott, & Williams, 1986), data were collected from the patient records of 201 individuals who had been admitted to a state hospital and subsequently transferred to another ward in the same hospital. There was a phase by day interaction with the day-to-day pattern of aggression in the pretransfer phase differing significantly from that in the posttransfer phase. The highest mean aggression for a single day was the day following transfer; the second highest was the day before transfer. There were main effects for age and number of hospital admissions.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0883-9417
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -