aggressive behavior and its triggers among hospitalized stroke patients’ entourages toward healthcare staff

Background: aggression toward staff and workplace violence are common problems worldwide that not only affect individuals’ dignity but also affect their physical and emotional well-being. objectives: the study was conducted aimed to investigate aggression correlations of hospitalized stroke patients’ entourage toward healthcare staff. methods: the cross-sectional study data were obtained by examining 194 hospitalized stroke patients’ entourages in a hospital in iran from september to december 2020. a list of demographic information and patients’ records, national institutes of health stroke scale, and hospital satisfaction questionnaire were used for data collection. to analyze data statistical tests such as chi-square tests, t-test, and multinomial logistic regression analysis were used. results: prevalence of subjective anger and verbal aggression were 49.5% and 16.5%, respectively. after adjustment for confounding variables, the entourages with an academic education (p < 0.001), spouses of the patients (p = 0.029), and those having less satisfaction with stay aspects and physical comfort of the hospital (p < 0.0005) report more subjective anger and those with academic education (p < 0.001), less satisfied with staff behavior (p < 0.001), and more satisfied with physician care (p < 0.001) showed verbal aggression. conclusions: subjective anger and verbal aggression arecommonup to 50% among the entourages of hospitalized stroke patients. likely payingmoreattention to the high-risk entourages and providing necessary training in the field of appropriate behaviors with entourages by the medical staff can reduce tension and aggression in stroke patients’ entourages.