... INTIMIDATION 24 THE CONCEPT OF SEVERITY 26 VALIDITY, RELIABILITY AND STANDARDISATION OF INCIDENT-BASED SCALES 27 ARTIFICIAL TESTING 28 CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY 31 METHOD 31 RESEARCH STUDY 32 PROCEDURE 33 OBSERVATIONS 34 INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERISTICS AND AGGRESSION 36 DIAGNOSIS OF AGGRESSION 36 CHAPTER 4: ANALYSIS & RESULTS 37 ANALYSIS 37 RESULTS 38 CHAPTER 5: DISCUSSION & CONCLUSION 41 DISCUSSION 41 SUMMARY 43 REFERENCES 46 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION Background Violent incidents on psychiatric wards have long been acknowledged to be an important topic for research, both for psychiatric nurses and for other professions. The subject is important for ? number of reasons. First and foremost of these is the potential for violence, harm and injury to nurses (staff) or to other patients. However, the study of violent incidents has touched upon many other areas which are of high importance to the practice of psychiatric ward setting, namely nurse-patient interaction, ward atmosphere, and the issue of control versus care, among others. However, the focus of this paper is violent incident instrumentation, or how violent incidents are defined, counted and measured for the purposes of research. Not ? great deal has been ...

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