Citation

Lanza M, Schultz M. J. Nurs. Meas. 2019; 27(2): E81-E94.

Affiliation

Veterans Administration Hospital, Bedford, Massachusetts.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Springer Publishing)

DOI

10.1891/1061-3749.27.2.E81

PMID

31511415

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The Assault (Violence) Response Questionnaire has been used widely in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Africa since the 1980s. The purpose is to update the ARQ.

METHOD: Specifically the ARQ-R has been expanded to include verbal assault and withholding information, more extensively tested for reliability and validity, and shortened.

RESULTS: The scale was reduced from 88 to 33 items and yet had the same high reliability and validity as did the larger scale.

CONCLUSIONS: The reduction in size makes it much less time consuming to complete, making it an instrument that very busy nurses can more easily use. The ARQ-R can be used for nurses measuring assault in both hospital and community settings.

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Language: en

Keywords

aggression; assault; instrument; violence