Swiss study on staff training

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A pilot study looking at the effectiveness of systematic risk assessment and staff training in 2 12 bed Swiss psychiatric admission wards, one urban and one rural. In order to test the effectiveness of the 2 interventions on the incidence rate of aggressive events, attacks against persons and incidence rate of coercive measures. They concluded that a systematic risk assessment and a training course may assist in reducing the incidence rate of coercive measures on psychiatric acute admission wards, but further testing is necessary.

http://studio3.org/data/Links-public/Needham_Pilot.pdf