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| Aggressive behaviour, staff attitude and staff perception of patients on two continuing care psychogeriatric wards | | Author(s) | M Bahareethan, A Shah |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 4, no 1, February 2000 |
| Pages | pp 66-71 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Aggression ; Psychogeriatric units ; Patients ; Nurses ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; London. |
| Annotation | Levels of aggressive behaviour on continuing care psychogeriatric wards are high. Various staffing factors, potentially amenable to improvement by training, are thought to be associated with aggressive behaviour. The relationship between aggressive behaviour in patients, measured by the Rating Scale for Aggressive Behaviour in the Elderly (RAGE), and the attitude of the nursing staff towards the patient and their perception of the patient, measured by the Modified Alienation Scale (MAS), was examined in a prospective study over four months on two continuing care psychogeriatric wards in London. There was a moderately strong correlation between the RAGE total score and the MAS total score and its sub-scales of feeling distant from the patient, deliberate use of symptom by the patients, alienation of the patient, and variable mood in the patient. Intervention studies are suggested to identify clinically effective and cost-effective strategies for reducing aggressive behaviour. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000407408 A |
| Classmark | EPB: LDM: LF: QTE: TOB: 82L |
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