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The Extended Staff Observation Aggression Scale (SOAS‐E): development, presentation and evaluation
Author(s) -
Hallsteinsen A.,
Kristensen M.,
Dahl A. A.,
Eilertsen D. E.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1998.tb10026.x
Subject(s) - aggression , presentation (obstetrics) , psychology , scale (ratio) , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , medicine , geography , cartography , radiology
The Staff Observation Aggression Scale (SOAS) was developed as a scale for reporting aggressive incidents involving psychiatric in‐patients. The SOAS — Extended Version (SOAS‐E) has the same aim, but has additional categories and subcategories. The SOAS‐E clearly distinguishes between violent and non‐violent aggressive behaviour and characterizes in more detail the associated situation. However, the main contribution of the SOAS‐E is the introduction of a category of‘warning signals’ that precede the releasing‘provocation factor’ as a separate and primary aspect of the cyclus of aggressive incidents. The development of the SOAS‐E is described, and the testing and inter‐rater reliability of the warning signals category are examined. Compared to the SOAS, the additional categories of the SOAS‐E are found to increase the scope for a detailed characterization of aggressive behaviour in psychiatric wards.