Development of nurse's attitude towards forensic psychiatric patients scale [Adli psikiyatri hastalari{dotless}na yönelik hemşire tutum ölçegi geliştirme]

Objective: This research was performed methodologically in order to develop a scale for examining the nurses' attitudes towards forensic psychiatric patients and to determine the validity and reliability of the scale. Method: The research was carried out with 650 nurses accepted to participate in the research. Evaluation of the data was done on 536 questionnaires. In the research, Information Form, the Belief Towards Mental Illness Scale (BMIS) and the Nurses' Attitude Towards Forensic Psychiatric Patients Scale (NAFPPS) were used. NAFPPS was developed in two processes as qualitative (theoretical) and quantitative. In the qualitative process, "focus group discussion", "composition forms" and various attitude scales published in the literature were applied. In the quantitative process, validity and reliability analysis was performed. Results: Content validity index (CVI) was found to be 0.69 and concurrent validity with BMIS was 0.44. The Cronbach's Alpha coefficient determining the internal consistency was 0.86, intracluster correlation coefficient was 0.86, and stability factor determining the consistency between pre-test and re-test 0.69. It was observed that NAFPPS consisted of four subdimensions. The highest score that can be achieved on the scale is "125", the lowest one is "25". High score shows the positive attitude towards the forensic psychiatric patient. Discussion: In the light of these data, the NAFPPS was found to be valid and reliable. © Archives of Neuropsychiatry, published by Galenos Publishing

Violence experienced by nurses at six university hospitals in Turkey

WOS: 000330107200004PubMed ID: 23216948This research was conducted to analyse the violence experienced by nurses employed at six university hospitals. A descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted. The research sample consisted of 441 nurses who worked in the emergency, intensive care and psychiatry units of six university hospitals in Turkey between June 2008 and June 2009 and who voluntarily agreed to participate. It was found that 60.8% of the nurses were subjected to verbal violence and/or physical violence from patients, visitors or health staff. Of the nurses who were subjected to workplace violence, 42.9% stated that their experience of verbal and/or physical violence had a negative impact on their physical and/or psychological health, and 42.9% stated that their work performance was negatively affected. Of these nurses, 1.8% stated that they received professional help, 13.6% stated that a report was made and 9.5% stated that they contacted the hospital police in some way. According to the findings of this research, similar to the situation worldwide, nurses in Turkey are subjected to verbal and/or physical violence from patients, visitors and health staff