Identification and Prevention of Schizophrenic Aggression in Psychiatry

Abstract

Schizophrenia is a chronic mental pathology with polymorphous symptoms, disabling on the emotional, relational, behavioral and social levels. In some cases, it can increase the risk of self- and heteroaggressive violence, requiring adapted care protocols, proposed in particular in psychiatric units. Violence has always been a major concern in psychiatry, which is considered to be a place with a high prevalence of violence. Patients with mental illnesses, particularly schizophrenia, are the most likely to become violent, and the staff working in psychiatric facilities are the most at risk. It is therefore important to know the impact on caregivers, and how they manage this violence. The present study, carried out in the Ar-razi hospital in Salé, has the following objectives to know the risk that the nursing staff in a psychiatric hospital is facing, to identify the behavior to be held to manage the violence of the schizophrenics, and identify preventive measures against violence.