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Aggressive Incidents in Psychiatric Hospitals on Heat Days

Overview
Journal BJPsych Open
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Specialty Psychiatry
Date 2021 Jun 17
PMID 34134813
Citations 5
Authors
Frank Eisele
Erich Flammer
Tilman Steinert
Hans Knoblauch
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Abstract

This study explores the relationship between temperature and the number of aggressive incidents and coercive interventions in the years 2007-2019 in six psychiatric hospitals in the south of the Germany with a total of 1007 beds. The number of aggressive incidents among 164 435 admissions was significantly higher on 'heat days' (≥30°C). Furthermore, there was a dose-response relationship between the number of aggressive incidents and increasing temperature. In contrast, the number of coercive interventions was not related to temperature. Considering the background of global warming, rising temperature could result in more frequent aggressive behaviour during in-patient treatment of psychiatric patients.

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