A community meeting protocol for assault prevention.
Assaultive behavior by patients is a serious problem throughout healthcare facilities. Currently, wide variability exists in the approaches used to deal with assaultive behavior. The immediate objective of this study was to perform a consensus validation of the community meeting as a prevention and intervention measure for assault. The community meeting is a regular meeting of all staff and patients for communication, ward management, or psychiatric treatment. A delphi survey, with three iterations, was used to operationalize the collection of judgments and achieve convergence of opinion from expert respondents. A protocol for a Violence Prevention Community Meeting (VPCM) was established.
Lanza
Marilyn Lewis
ML
Boston University School of Medicine, USA.
Kazis
Lewis
L
Lee
Austin
A
Ericsson
Albert
A
D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006801:Humans; D014754:Violence / Q000517:prevention & control*