Wetenschappelijk tijdschrift voor psychiaters, artsen in opleiding tot psychiater en andere geïnteresseerden
  • EN
  • NL
Tijdschrift voor Psychiatrie
  • Tijdschrift
  • Terug naar hoofdmenu
    New articles Current issue Previous issues Special issues Book reviews
    Auteursrichtlijnen Over het tijdschrift Redactie Abonnementen Colofon Adverteren
    Current issue
    Nummer 8 / 2023 Jaargang 65
    Tijdschrift voor Psychiatrie
    8 / 2023

    Current issue
  • Accreditatie
  • Meetinstrumenten
  • Vacatures
Edit
  • EN
  • NL
  1. Home
  2. Artikelen
  3. Estimating and reporting aggression in rel...
New research

Estimating and reporting aggression in relation to personal characteristics of emergency service workers

E.J.M. Penterman, C.P.F. van der Staak, H.L.I. Nijman

background Research on aggression in mental health care has focused mainly on patient characteristics, whereas very little research has been done on the characteristics of the care providers in their reporting of aggression.
aim To study the characteristics of the care providers of an emergency service in relation to the reporting of aggression.
method All emergency service workers( n = 21) in the Uden-Veghel region were asked to complete a neo-pi-r form. Before 576 outreach contacts had been made with patients in psychiatric crises, the Checklist of Risks in the Crisis-team (crc) was also completed and in cases where the patient exhibited aggressive behaviour, a soas-r form was filled in, following contact with the patient.
results Significant differences were found between the psychiatric emergency service workers with regard to the mean estimates of the likelihood that they would experience aggression during the consultation and with regard to the proportion of patient contacts for which emergency workers reported aggression. There were indications that the level of conscientiousness of the emergency service workers was positively associated with a higher chance that they would report aggressive behaviour following the consultation. Furthermore, altruism was found to be negatively associated with the likelihood, as predicted by the service workers, that they would be confronted with aggression during contact with the patient.
conclusion Possibly, workers who scored high on conscientiousness and who work thoroughly and in a orderly and systematic manner and who keep to the rules are less flexible in their response to the patient during the interaction. As a result, the patient became irritated more quickly. On the other hand, it could be that conscientious workers completed the form-filling more carefully when aggression had to be reported and as a result they made higher preliminary estimates of the likelihood of aggression and a reported a larger number of incidents of actual aggression.

Download PDF
Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Mail WhatsApp
Published by the Stichting Tijdschrift voor Psychiatrie on behalf of the Nederlandse Vereniging voor Psychiatrie and the Vlaamse Vereniging voor Psychiatrie.

Over TvP

Over het tijdschrift Redactie Auteursrichtlijnen Colofon
Abonnementen Abonnee worden Adverteren

Contact

Redactiebureau Tijdschrift voor Psychiatrie
drs. S.L. (Lianne) van der Meer
Telefoon: 030 899 00 80
info@tijdschriftvoorpsychiatrie.nl

Copyright

Redactie en uitgever zijn niet aansprakelijk voor de inhoud van de onder auteursnaam opgenomen artikelen of van de advertenties. Niets uit dit tijdschrift mag openbaar worden gemaakt door middel van druk, microfilm of op welke wijze ook, zonder schriftelijke toestemming van de redactie.

© copyright 2023 Tijdschrift voor Psychiatrie