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Work-related violence remains a significant problem in healthcare settings, including EDs. Violence risk assessment tools have been developed to improve risk mitigation in this setting; however, incorporation of these tools into standard hospital processes remains scarce. This research aimed to explore nurses' perspectives on the Bröset Violence Checklist used in routine violence risk assessment and their recommendations for additional items.

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Collaborations between designers and healthcare professionals are at the core of design for health, with calls in this journal for partnerships between designers and occupational therapists. This article follows these calls. It discusses a research project where designers, occupational therapists and inpatients of a mental health unit collaborated to prototype an ‘arts-health practice’ program for mental health recovery. During the development of this project, we constituted a ‘lo-fi living lab’, a collaborative platform that resulted from combining participatory design and autonomous design frameworks. As we show, this platform enables collaborative design processes that give priority to the creative practices and co-creative projects that healthcare communities have in their everyday life. It also reframes the role of designers and allows them to learn from those practices and become participants in those projects. The ‘lo-fi living lab’ format, we argue, makes it possible to run collaborative design projects that empower health staff to do their work in creative ways; allow designers to learn from the ‘everyday design’ practices of healthcare professionals; and creates non-disruptive platforms for user participation in the design of health services.

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Work-related violence is a significant problem in healthcare settings and emergency departments are one of the highest at-risk locations. There have been significant challenges in identifying successful risk-mitigation strategies to reduce the incidence and impact of work-related violence in this setting. This research explores the perspectives of clinical staff who routinely use violence risk assessment to provide recommendations for improvements.

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In 2018, we developed and implemented a novel approach to recognition and response to occupational violence and aggression (OVA). It included routine use of the Brøset Violence Checklist for all ED patients integrated with a score-based notification and response framework. The present study evaluated the impact of the new process on staff knowledge, perceptions and confidence regarding OVA in ED and the rate of security events related to OVA.

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The present study is one of the first to investigate the role of emotional intelligence in the predilection for teamwork. One hundred and thirty-four respondents, all working in teams, were administered Palmer and Stough's (2001) measure of emotional intelligence, the NEO-FFI and the Team Player Inventory (Kline, 1999). In line with expectations, the strongest correlations with teamwork were found to be with extraversion, total emotional intelligence and agreeableness. Neuroticism correlated negatively with teamwork and no relationship was found between conscientiousness and predilection for teamwork. Additionally, this research challenged the argument that emotional intelligence is little more than personality by showing that the construct of emotional intelligence added predictive power to that of personality. Limitations and implications for future research are also discussed

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Sensory integration and the ability to discriminate target objects from distractors are critical to survival, yet the developmental trajectories of these abilities are unknown. This study investigated developmental changes in 9- (n = 18) and 11-year-old (n = 20) children, adolescents (n = 19) and adults (n = 22) using an audiovisual object discrimination task with uni- and multisensory distractors. Reaction times (RTs) were slower with visual/audiovisual distractors, and although all groups demonstrated facilitation of multisensory RTs in these conditions, children's and adolescents' responses corresponded to fewer race model violations than adults', suggesting protracted maturation of multisensory processes. Multisensory facilitation could not be explained by changes in RT variability, suggesting that tests of race model violations may still have theoretical value at least for familiar multisensory stimuli.

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This article presents the results from a Design Anthropology study at four Psychiatric Units co-located in a newly built regional hospital based on 126 ethnographic interviews with staff, within which 63 participants mentioned the importance of comfort in generating environments conducive to wellbeing. An in-depth qualitative understanding of comforting practices, as emergent forms of everyday care. These may receive less attention within more established interventions from organisational models of care (e.g., Safewards) and might appear to be implicit gestures of courtesy. However, they contribute to meaningful encounters and contribute to individual and organisational wellbeing in psychiatric care.

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