@article{ref1,
title="Responding to inpatient violence at a psychiatric hospital of special security: a pilot project",
journal="Medicine, science, and the law",
year="2002",
author="Crichton, John H. M. and Calgie, Jim",
volume="42",
number="1",
pages="30-33",
abstract="Within secure psychiatric hospitals, staff have to manage many difficult and challenging situations. Crichton (1997) suggested that when staff perceive a greater degree of responsibility on patients for their actions there is a particularly morally censorious response. The aim of this pilot study was to discover if this association, discovered using a hypothetical scenario, was also present in how nursing staff respond to real violent patient behaviour. Over a five week period all episodes of inter-personal violence in a hospital with special security were identified and those involved interviewed. Thirty-one episodes of inter-personal violence were identified. A disproportionate number were caused by female patients and patients detained under civil sections of mental health legislation. A personality disorder diagnosis and the staff belief that mental disorder did not reduce the individual patient's blame for the incident were associated with the response of a restrictive sanction (both cases p < 0.01).<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0025-8024",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}