Nurses Perception toward Predictors of Violence Behaviour among Psychiatric Patients in Workplace

Abstract

Violence is defined as' the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened against a group or community that resulting in injury, death. Psychological harm, mal-development or deprivation (World Health Organization, 2019). Workplace violence is the intentional use of power, threatened or actual, against another person or against a group, in work-related circumstances, that either results in or has a high degree of likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, mal development, or deprivation (Cooper & Swanson, 2019). Predictors of workplace violence Several predictive and protective factors of workplace violence, with specific regard to physically aggressive behaviour, higher levels of anger expression did predict aggressive behaviour, while hostility was also, predictive. Other predictors of aggressive and violent behaviour that found was (i.e., lifetime substance use disorders, early age at the first contact with DMHs, longer illness duration) (Stefano et al., 2019).