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Climmy Pouwels^1,2, Peggy Spauwen^1,2, Caroline van Heugten^2,3

¹GGZ Oost Brabant, Multidisciplinary Specialist Center for Brain Injury and Neuropsychiatry, Huize Padua. P.O. Box 3, 5427 ZG, Boekel, The Netherlands. (cgjg.pouwels@ggzoostbrabant.nl; p.spauwen@ggzoostbrabant.nl).

Clinical Neuropsychiatry

|December 15, 2021

Abstract

Objective:

The ABC method (Antecedent events, target Behaviours, Consequent events) is a behavioural management technique developed for nurses. The objective of the present study was to examine the long-term effects of the ABC method on aggressive behaviour in 40 patients with acquired brain injury.

Method:

Four aggression outcome measures and a questionnaire about the implementation of the ABC method were filled out by the nursing staff in this longitudinal intervention study.

Results:

Contrary to expectations, a significant increase of aggression was found on two aggression measures. A possible explanation may be that the ABC method increased awareness of aggression in the nursing staff. Results of the implementation questionnaire indicated that the ABC method was not part of usual care at the long-term follow-up.

Conclusions:

It seems that the quality of the implementation process was insufficient to find an effect of the ABC method on aggression. Suggestions for improving the implementation process are made in this paper.

Keywords:

ABC method aggressive behaviour behavioural management technique brain injury nursing staff

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