TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2023//
TI  - Characteristics of international staff victims of psychiatric patient assaults: review of published findings, 2017-2022
JO  - Psychiatric quarterly
A1  - Flannery, Raymond B.
A1  - Flannery, Georgina J.
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0033-2720
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11126-022-10008-5
ID  - ref1
ER  -