Hetero-aggressive outbursts in patients' behaviour in emergency psychiatry.

Introduction: Hetero-aggressive behaviour in patients with mental disorders is frequent and requires special skills of doctors and other medical staff in order to urgently protect the patient and indicate hospitalization.

Objective: The objective of this paper was to examine the frequency of the most common diagnostic categories in psychiatric patients with hetero-aggressive behaviour. The secondary objective was to examine aspects of realized hospitalization (voluntary, involuntary) and socio-demographic characteristics of these patients.