‘Integrated violence prevention’ – an intervention aimed at preventing violence and threats against employees in psychiatric units and the Prison and Probation Service in Denmark

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: The domain under study is violence-prevention climate, violence-prevention strategies and actions performed by management and employees in psychiatric hospitals and the prison and probation service. The study also concerns contextual factors in these job-sectors, which may or may not influence the effect of the intervention.; Mental and Behavioural Disorders; Violence-prevention climate, violence-prevention strategies and actions

• Registration Number: ISRCTN86993466
• Lead Sponsor: The National Research Centre for the Working Environment

Brief Summary

2019 Protocol article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31104039/ protocol (added 08/12/2020) Thesis results in https://nfa.dk/da/Forskning/Udgivelse?journalId=0da79113-a6f0-46f9-bb9f-8958f1734fe8 (added 13/01/2022) 2024 Results article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38622564/ (added 16/04/2024)

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2017-12-20
• Study Completion: 2019-12-31
• Last Update Posted: 29 April 2024

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 775

Inclusion Criteria

Workplace level:
1. Psychiatric hospital or prison and probation service
2. Main task of the workplace is to work with psychiatric patients/inmates

Individual level:
1. Manager or employee at participating workplace
2. Employees are in direct contact with inmates/patients
3. Aged 18 to 67 years old

Exclusion Criteria

Workplace level:
1. Workplaces with less than 10 employees

Individual level:
1. Employees with no contact with inmates/patients
2. Individuals with a manager that is not employed at the workplace

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
The degree to which managers and employees continuously work on violence prevention practices based on their registration and experiences is measured using a questionnaire at every three months.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
1. Cooperation between managers and employees is measured using a questionnaire at every three months<br>2. Attention to violence prevention is measured using a questionnaire at every three months<br>3. Actions taken to prevent violence and threats measured using a questionnaire at every three months<br>4. Violence prevention climate is measured by a number of single items and the violence prevention climate scale from Kessler et al., 2008 at every three months5. Self-efficacy in violence prevention is measured using a questionnaire at every three months<br>6. Sense of safety at work is measured using a questionnaire at every three months<br>7. Implementation degree is measured using registration of reach, fidelity and dose received after the introduction of each core element of the intervention (mapping, leader seminar, employee seminar, monthly coachings during 3 months, and monthly steering group meetings during 3 months