Predicting inpatient violence using an extended version of the Brøset-Violence-Checklist: instrument development and clinical application

Acceptability and psychometric properties of Brøset Violence Checklist in psychiatric care settings in China.

ACCESSIBLE SUMMARY Short-term risk assessment instrument owns great importance for psychiatric nurses in China; however, the lack of a standardized violence risk assessment instrument has disadvantaged them in clinical practice. The Brøset Violence Checklist (BVC), a behavioural observation tool, is the most frequently cited instrument available for evaluating violence risk in psychiatric inpat...

Assessing Violence Risk in Psychiatric Inpatients: Useful Tools

Psychiatrists who work in inpatient units are faced with daily decisions about predicting which patients will be violent, both in the hospital and after discharge. These decisions are often made using unstructured clinical judgment based on the clinician's experience and knowledge of the literature. How long such judgment stays the standard of care remains to be seen, because psychiatric resear...

The Brøset Violence Checklist: clinical utility in a secure psychiatric intensive care setting.

Violence towards health-care workers, especially in areas such as mental health/psychiatry, has become increasingly common, with nursing staff suggesting that a fear of violence from their patients may affect the quality of care they provide. Structured clinical tools have the potential to assist health-care providers in identifying patients who have the potential to become violent or aggressiv...

Assessing the Risk of Violence: Development and Validation of the Brøset Violence Checklist

Development and Validation of a Short Form Questionnaire to Measuring Wife Abuse

Expended Abstract Introduction: Domestic violence is one of the most common social deviances worldwide. Domestic violence includes child abuse, elder abuse, and spouse abuse (Moreno et al., 2005; Dalal & Lindquist, 2012). One of the most important forms of violence in the family is caused by men exercising their social or physical power against women. However, this problem is an integral part...