title: Mental Health Nurses' Attitudes and Perceived Self-Efficacy Toward Inpatient Aggression: A Cross-Sectional Study of Associations With Nurse-Related Characteristics.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore mental health nurses' attitude and self-efficacy to adult inpatient aggression, and to explore the association with nurse-related characteristics.
  
  
  METHODS
  Cross-sectional study in a sample of 219 mental health nurses in nine psychiatric hospitals, with stepwise linear regression analysis to detect predictive models.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Female and less experienced nurses were less likely to blame patients for their behavior. Gender, burnout, secondary traumatic stress, and compassion satisfaction accounted for 26.2% of the variability in mental health nurses' self-efficacy toward aggression.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There needs to be attention to professional quality of life for mental health nurses, to provide them with of self-efficacy and a positive attitude toward coping with aggression.
authors.affiliation: University Centre for Nursing and Midwifery, Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.|Department of Nursing, Vives University College Leuven, Roeselare, Belgium.
authors.forename: Sofie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Verhaeghe
authors.affiliation: University Centre for Nursing and Midwifery, Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.|Department of Bachelor in Nursing, Artevelde University College Ghent, Ghent, Belgium.
authors.forename: Veerle
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Duprez
authors.affiliation: University Centre for Nursing and Midwifery, Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.|Department of Bachelor in Nursing, Artevelde University College Ghent, Ghent, Belgium.
authors.forename: Dimitri
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Beeckman
authors.affiliation: Department of Bachelor in Nursing, Artevelde University College Ghent, Ghent, Belgium.
authors.forename: Joris
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Leys
authors.affiliation: Research Group Mental Health Nursing, Inholland University of Applied Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.|Department of Psychiatry, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.|Parnassia Psychiatric Institute, The Hague, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Berno
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Van Meijel
authors.affiliation: University Centre for Nursing and Midwifery, Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.|Nursing Science, University Hospital Ghent, Ghent, Belgium.
authors.forename: Ann
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Van Hecke
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D000374:Aggression; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001530:Belgium; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients / Q000523:psychology*; D016014:Linear Models; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000451:nursing*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011788:Quality of Life; D020377:Self Efficacy; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Attitude; patient aggression; predictor; psychiatric nursing; self-efficacy