Title
Assaults on staff by psychiatric patients in community residences
UMMS Affiliation
Department of Psychiatry
Publication Date
2000-01-27
Document Type
Article
Subjects
Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Community Mental Health Services; Female; Health Personnel; Humans; Institutionalization; Male; Massachusetts; Mental Disorders; Middle Aged; *Professional-Patient Relations; Residential Facilities; Retrospective Studies; Violence
Disciplines
Health Services Research | Mental and Social Health | Psychiatric and Mental Health | Psychiatry | Psychiatry and Psychology
Abstract
The study examined assaultive behavior directed toward staff of community-based residential facilities by patients who had been discharged to these facilities from Massachusetts state psychiatric hospitals in the early 1990s. Observed rates of assault declined by 61 percent over a six-and-a-half-year period. Early in the study period, male patients were more likely than female patients to be assaultive, but men and women had similar rates of assaultiveness later in the study period, after they had been in residential placements for several years. The most common diagnosis among assaultive patients was schizophrenia.
Source
Psychiatr Serv. 2000 Jan;51(1):111-3.
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.)
Related Resources
PubMed ID
10647143
Repository Citation
Flannery, Raymond B. Jr.; Fisher, William H.; Walker, Andrew P.; Kolodziej, Karolina; and Spillane, Michael J., "Assaults on staff by psychiatric patients in community residences" (2000). Systems and Psychosocial Advances Research Center Publications and Presentations. 308.
https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/psych_cmhsr/308
