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

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 ( < 0.01) and their negative ( < 0.

Degree of Anger During Anger-Generating Situations Among Psychiatric Staff Nurses: Association Between Nurses' Attitudes Toward Service Users' Aggression and Confidence in Intervening in Aggressive Situations.

Some situations require psychiatric staff nurses to respond to service users' negativity or aggression. As a result, psychiatric staff nurses may experience anger. The current study examined how anger levels of psychiatric staff nurses triggered by anger-generating situations by service users affected nurses' confidence and attitudes.

Near-infrared spectroscopy analysis of frontal lobe dysfunction in schizophrenia.

Background: Previous studies have shown that near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) has high temporal resolution, requires little restraint, and is suitable for examining the effect of psychological tasks on brain circulation. In the present study, frontal function in schizophrenic patients was analyzed by NIRS during random number generation (RNG), ruler-catching (RC), and sequential finger-to-thumb (SFT) tasks.

Methods: Two sets of NIRS probes were attached to the foreheads of 13 schizophrenic patients and 10 control subjects approximately at Fp1-F7 and Fp2-F8.

Effects of isoflurane and halothane on the calcium ion-tension curve in rat myocardium.

In order to clarify the interaction of volatile anesthetics and extracellular calcium ion on the myocardial contraction, effects of both isoflurane (1.0%) and halothane (0.5%) on the extracellular calcium ion concentration ([Ca(2+)](O))-tension curve were studied.

Frequency- and length-dependent tension development in rat heart muscles exposed to isoflurane and halothane.

Using 22 isolated rat ventricular muscle preparations, we investigated whether or not the increase in preload and/or contraction frequency may counteract the negative inotropy of both isoflurane (2.0%) and halothane (1.0%).