A Qualitative Exploration of Service Users’ Experiences of Violence Risk Assessment and Management in Forensic Mental Health Settings: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis

User violence prevention and intervention measures to minimize and prevent aggression towards health care workers: A systematic review

“…Of the 11 studies located, the majority of the articles selected were qualitative studies [ [24] , [25] , [26] , [27] , [28] , [29] , [30] , [31] , [32] , [33] , [34] , [35] , [36] , [37] , [38] , [39] ], 3 were randomized controlled trials [ [40] , [41] , [42] ], another study combined different methodologies, both qualitative and quantitative, throughout the implementation of the intervention [ 43 ], and one of them was a cross-sectional survey [ 44 ]. Most of the studies were conducted in the European continent (81.8%): Italy, United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway and Spain [ [35] , [36] , [37] , [38] , [39] , [40] , [41] , [42] , [43] , [44] ]. The rest were carried out in Brazil and Australia [ [34] , [35] , [36] , 40 ].…”

“… 9 Pelto-Piri and Kjellin [ 35 ], Qualitative Sweden 33 Service users, staff members and room managers Median 47 and mean 46.7 years 17 women and 16 men 8 Pina et al [ 36 ] Qualitative Spain 80 Public health service users Mean age 48.92 (SD = 14.95) (63.7% female) (36.3% male) 9 Johnston et al [ 37 ] Qualitative North England 30 Inpatients and forensic mental health staff members Users: 18–43 years old. Health personnel:18–60 years old 18 women and 12 men O'Dowd et al [ 38 ] Qualitative Scotland 7 Inpatients of a mental health hospital Between 20 and 70 years old 100% men Faerden et al [ 43 ] Various phases: qualitative, collaborative, and quantitative work Oslo, Norway 193 Users, family, professionals, and room designers (architects) 159 professionals: 32.7 years Professionals: 50.75% Women 49.25% Men Pina et al [ 39 ] Qualitative Spain 44 Primary Care Professionals. Mean age: 50 years 68.14% women Abbreviations : RCT: Randomized Controlled Trial; SD: Standard Deviation.…”

“…Seven of the 11 studies included as participants users belonging to psychiatric units (63,6%) [ [35] , [36] , [37] , [38] , [40] , [41] , [42] , [43] ]. Within that percentage, health care professionals were included [ 34 , 35 , 37 , 39 , [42] , [43] , [44] ].…”

“…Five of the studies included participants from both sectors, both users and workers [ 35 , 37 , [42] , [43] , [44] ]. However, in two other studies, the participants were all nursing staff [ 39 , 44 ] and, in four others, the participants were all users [ 36 , 38 , 40 , 41 ].…”

Exploring the role of the nurse unit manager in forensic mental health inpatient units: A qualitative study

“…Other challenges include the consumer mix, which may see an emergence of prisoner culture and tension on the unit and change in the overall risk profile of the entire consumer group with just the admission of one new consumer (Maguire et al, 2022; The Department of Health, 2015). The environment itself can also prove challenging where many of the rules are related to the physical, procedural and relational security requirements (Maguire et al, 2022), and where there is a danger of overly focusing on managing risk factors and gaining Adherence from consumers (O'Dowd et al, 2022).…”