摘要
Psychiatric units are one of the most frequent settings of violence against medical staff. This affects the physical, emotional and psychological well-being of the staff and has an impact on their quality of care and the interactions with patients inside the unit. Evaluate if SDAS scores at admission in an inpatient psychiatric unit can be predictive of violence and aggression among admitted patients towards medical staff. Charts of all patients admitted during a 12 month period were retrospectively reviewed and their SDAS scores at admission registered, and all violent events reported by nurses during the same period were collected. SDAS scores significantly contributed to the prediction of the violent behavior against nurses, non dependent on psychiatric diagnosis at admission. SDAS can represent a tool that can help psychiatric nurses identify patients at risk of violence and therefore improve management of these patients.
