Revision as of 21:52, 21 July 2009

This page is under construction

Intention

The intention of this page is to review measures of violence in psychiatic institutions particularly those using Nonviolent Communication.

Methodology

Published and unpublished data was collected from a variety of sources (see tables). The data collected consisted of no of seclusion incidents, no of hours patients were secluded, no of restraint incidents, no of hours patients were restrained and no of staff injuries over a period of time. The data was then "normalized" by expressing the data per 1000 patient days. When the number of patient days during the observation period was not available, the unit capacity times length of data collection period was used as an estimate of patient days.

In some cases only combined seclusion plus restraint data was available so this was compared with the calculated seclusion plus restraint data for other institutions.

A "blank" entry in a results table indicates that the data was unavailable

Results

Table 1: Seclusion plus Restraint and Staff Injury data ordered by increasing Seclusion plus Restraint incidents

Table 2: Seclusion and Staff Injury data ordered by increasing Seclusion incidents

Interpretation

References

Riemer,D. Corwith, C. Application of Core Strategies: Reducing Seclusion & Restraint Use, On The Edge, 13(3) (2007)
Riemer, D. Creating Sanctuary: Reducing Violence in a Maximum Security Forensic Psychiatric Hospital Unit, On The Edge - Spring 2009

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