Patient Violence Toward Psychiatric Health Care Workers in Israel as Viewed Through Incident Reports.

Background: Rates of violence perpetrated by patients toward health care workers are known to be higher in psychiatry than in other fields. Objective standardized reports of violent incidents may clarify this phenomenon.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess the characteristics of patient violence, as evident from objective reports.

Effect of mental health nurses' beliefs and knowledge of medication on their use of strategies to improve medication adherence.

Despite the proven efficiency of medication for mental illness, research indicates low patient adherence to medication. Nonetheless, only few studies have directly examined the relationship between nurse beliefs and knowledge, and their use of strategies to improve patient adherence to psychiatric medication. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to clarify nurses' views, beliefs about, and knowledge of psychiatric medication affect their inclination to implement various strategies to improve patient adherence.

Nurse intention to implement creative group activities among psychiatric patients.

Purpose: This study examined the factors that affect nurse intention to implement creative group activities among psychiatric patients.

Design And Methods: The study used a cross-sectional design. One hundred psychiatric nurses completed a questionnaire based on the theory of reasoned action.

Studies on the flight patterns of foraging sand flies.

Phlebotomine sand flies transmit Leishmania parasites that cause leishmaniasis in humans. We report experimental results that improve our understanding of how foraging sand flies proceed over flat or sloping ground and how they negotiate vertical obstacles. Three rows of traps were suspended at different heights on a wire fence.

Exclusion of phlebotomine sand flies from inhabited areas by means of vertical mesh barriers.

Vector control constitutes an important component of integrated disease control campaigns. Source reduction is not an option for phlebotomine sand fly vectors of leishmaniasis, because larval breeding sites remain either unknown or inaccessible. Thus, all control efforts are directed against the adult sand flies, mostly attempting to limit their contact with humans.