Lennart Bogren's scientific contributions

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The article describes a conceptual model proposing that aggression in psychiatric facilities may be reduced by designing the physical environment with ten evidence-grounded stress-reducing features. The model was tested in a newer hospital in Sweden having wards with nine of the ten features. Data on two clinical markers of aggressive behavior, com...

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... Alternatively, and equally as plausibly, service users' experience of hospitalization may contribute to the High and consistent violence − 9.97 p < 0.001*** 6.89 p < 0.001*** 6.38 p < 0.001*** 5.63 p < 0.001*** enactment of violence/aggression. Beyond service user characteristics, a wealth of research has identified a range of environmental factors as contributing the enactment of violence on acute psychiatric wards, including overcrowding (Daffern et al., 2004;Virtanen et al., 2011), poorly designed wards (Ulrich et al., 2018) and staff related influences, such as negative staff morale, staff-staff conflict, negative staff change and pressured staff (Papadopoulous et al., 2012). Indeed, on many occasions the enactment of violence is in itself a reaction to staff intervention (Nawaz et al., 2021). ...