NCT05946720

Aggression From the Perspective of Patients and Nurses

Aggression From the Perspective of Patients and Nurses: An Integrated Study on the Evaluation of Aggression in Psychiatric Clinics

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 97 (actual)
• Sponsor: Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The research, was planned in a randomized controlled design, aiming to evaluate the effect of the training given to nurses working in psychiatric clinics on the use of aggression and BVC (Broset Violence Checklist) on the nurses' perceptions of aggression and the compliance of the use of BVC, which they evaluated for the patients watched in the videos, with the BVC determined by expert opinion. The study was conducted in Adana Doctor Ekrem Tok Mental Health and Diseases Hospital between July 2021 and April 2022. A total of 97 nurses working in psychiatric clinics, 47 in the training group and 50 in the comparison group, participated in the study. A pre-test was administered to the nurses and nurses in the training group were randomized and given training including aggression and BVC use. After the training, a post-test was administered to all nurses.

Conditions

• Aggression

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Training including aggression and the use of BVC.	After obtaining verbal consent from the nurses who met the inclusion criteria of the study before the pre-test was applied to the nurses, the nurses who volunteered to participate in the study were randomized within their own clinic using the simple randomization method. For this, after the data collection form was distributed before the pre-test, the nurses were asked to write the letter that came to them on the data collection form and not forget it. In order for nurses to be included in the training or comparison group, the letter A, written on the closed papers in the box prepared for simple randomization, represents the Education group, and the letter B represents the comparison group.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-07-01
• Primary completion: 2021-07-10
• Completion: 2022-04-14
• First posted: 2023-07-14
• Last updated: 2023-07-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)