Effectiveness of an Aggression Management Training Program in Japan: A Quasi-Experimental Study

Abstract

This study evaluated the effects of the Comprehensive Violence Prevention and Protection Program (CVPPP) training for managing patient aggression in 95 participants who attended the FY 2019 program using a single-group pretest–posttest design. The comparison of findings before and 1 month after the training showed a significant improvement in staff anger (p < 0.01) and their negative (p < 0.01) and positive attitudes (p < 0.01) toward psychiatric inpatient aggression and confidence (p < 0.01). Staff with controlling and self-affirming traits provided more effective care and demonstrated a positive attitude toward inpatient aggression (p < 0.05).

Supplemental data for this article is available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/01612840.2021.1999542 .

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank all Comprehensive Violence Prevention and Protection Program students and instructors who contributed to this survey.

Disclosure statement

The authors report no conflict of interest.

Data availability statement

Data associated with this article is available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

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Funding

This work was supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) KAKENHI under the Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists [number 19K19559].