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KMID : 1004620040100020115
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Clinical Nursing Research
2004 Volume.10 No. 2 p.115 ~ p.128
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Development of a Aggression-Predicting Scale for Psychiatric Inpatient
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Song In-Sook
Han Young-Sook
Heo Hyang-Mi
Lee Jung-Hae
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Abstract
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Purpose:This study was to develop and validate the scale to predict aggression of psychiatric inpatients.
Method:The first phase of the study; 50 staffs(nurse, physician, clinical psychologist) were interviewed to provide narrative data, from which 53 items were developed. Content validity was judged by 15 nurses(who worked more than 5 years) and 2 professionals. This preliminary questionnaire was administered to 350 nurses who worked more than 2 years. Item analysis and factor analysis were carried out to validate violence predicting scale. Cronbach’s α was used to test reliability of the scale. For data analysis, SPSS WIN 11.0/PC was used.
Result:As a result of the item analysis, 42 items were selected from the total of 53 items and three factors were extracted by factor analysis. Three factors were labeled as `Hostile verbal expression’, ’Latent resistance’, and ’aggressive behavior’. Three factors were explained by 69.449% out of the total variance. The first factor explained 54.629% and the second factor explained 10.079%. The second factor were not mentioned in other study but important factor for aggression prediction in psychiatric inpatient. And the third factor explained 4.741%. Cronbach’s α coefficient of the tool was .9830.
Conclusion:The scale is identified to be a tool with a high degree of reliability and validity. Therefore, this scale can be effectively utilized for assessment of aggression for psychiatric inpatient.
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KEYWORD
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Aggression, Psychiatric inpatient
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