Effect of Aggression Management Care Bundle

Abant Izzet Baysal University

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Aggression

Treatments: Behavioral: Aggression management care bundle

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06661824

AIBU-PSK-MB-02

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this sequential randomized controlled experimental design study is to develop an aggression care bundle approach in psychiatric care for patients with psychotic disorders, to use it in a psychiatric clinic, and to evaluate its results. The hypotheses it aims to test are as follows:

1. The aggression management care bundle applied to patients with psychotic disorders in a psychiatric clinic will reduce the risk of developing aggression.
2. The number of aggressive events in the patient group to whom the aggression management care bundle is applied will be less than the control group receiving routine care.
3. The use of restrictive aggression management techniques in the clinic will decrease.
4. The clinical compliance rate of the developed aggression management care bundle will be 95% and above.

Full description

Psychopathology plays an important role in the emergence of aggression. Having a diagnosis of psychotic disorder or schizophrenia is an important psychopathology that leads to aggression. For these reasons, aggression and how to manage it is an ongoing problem in psychiatric clinics. The prevalence of aggressive behavior in psychiatric wards varies between 8-76%. The prevalence of aggression in schizophrenia patients is stated as 33.3%. This aggression can be verbal, directed towards objects/spaces, towards oneself or physical aggression towards others. Healthcare professionals in psychiatric wards are exposed to these aggressive events carried out by patients. It is reported that 25-85% of healthcare professionals working in psychiatric wards are exposed to aggressive events; the prevalence of aggression towards nurses varies between 11.4-97.6%. Over the years, some methods have been developed and used to manage aggression in psychiatric wards. Chemical and mechanical restraint and seclusion methods are still the leading methods used. There is a need for alternative and evidence-based interventions based on therapeutic nursing approaches to manage aggression in psychiatric wards, which can be easily adopted and implemented in the clinic. Therefore, it was aimed to develop and use the "care bundle" approach, which has been shown to improve patient outcomes in the literature, for aggression management in psychiatric wards. Care bundles are care tools that target a specific patient population, consist of 3-5 evidence-based approaches, and improve patient outcomes when used together. In this study, it was planned to develop the aggression management care package in phase 1, and evaluate the clinical use of the aggression management care bundle in phase 2. The aggression management care bundle was developed following the guidelines of The Institute for Healthcare Improvement.

Enrollment: 24 estimated patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Being between 18-65 years of age,
• Being able to speak and understand Turkish,
• Having one of the disorders within the scope of Schizophrenia and psychosis,
• Being newly admitted to Bolu İzzet Baysal Mental Health and Diseases Hospital during the period the research was conducted,
• Having scored 1 point or more on the Broset Violence Checklist or 65 points or more on the Buss-Perry Aggression Questionnaire.

Exclusion criteria

• Not being able to give written informed consent,
• Being the first time a patient has been admitted to a psychiatric clinic,
• Having developmental delay or any other significant organic brain pathology.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Sequential Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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24 participants in 2 patient groups

Control group (routine care)

No Intervention group

Description:

Patients in the control group will be given routine care by clinic nurses. There are aggression management interventions that the clinic has adopted so far. In the face of an aggressive event, 1. contact the patient, 2. notify the physician and perform chemical restraint according to the order, 3. perform mechanical restraint and seclusion according to the patient's condition. The researcher will not be involved and will not intervene at this stage. The same scales will be applied to the patients as the experimental group.

experimental group (aggression management care bundle)

Experimental group

Description:

The elements of the aggression management care bundle (risk assessment, cognitive remediation training, social skills training, tension reduction techniques, environmental therapy, improving sleep) developed for the experimental group will be applied by the clinical nurses and the researcher. Data will be collected by applying the same scales to the patients as the control group.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Aggression management care bundle