Table 2.
Types of resident-to-resident aggression seen by staff and resident focus group participants (n=16 groups, 103 participants)
| Types Mentioned* | % of Groups Mentioning |
% Participants Mentioning† |
Total Conversation Blocks Mentioning‡ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Verbal Abuse | 100% | 72% | 111 |
| Screaming / Yelling | 88% | 41% | 33 |
| Telling another resident to "shut up" | 81% | 35% | 30 |
| General Verbal Abuse | 69% | 31% | 26 |
| Cursing | 63% | 30% | 21 |
| Arguing | 63% | 22% | 18 |
| Verbally threatening . intimidating | 44% | 22% | 10 |
| Bossing . ordering around | 38% | 18% | 10 |
| Racial . Ethnic Slurs | 19% | 4% | 3 |
| Physical Abuse | 94% | 64% | 66 |
| Pushing | 44% | 17% | 9 |
| Punching . Fighting | 44% | 16% | 12 |
| Hurling . Pouring liquid | 31% | 19% | 8 |
| Physically Threatening | 31% | 12% | 5 |
| Hitting with object | 31% | 11% | 8 |
| Fighting over food / taking food | 31% | 11% | 7 |
| Slapping | 31% | 10% | 5 |
| Ramming with wheelchair | 19% | 13% | 3 |
| Grabbing | 19% | 10% | 3 |
| Throwing Objects | 19% | 7% | 4 |
| Theft | 19% | 7% | 3 |
| Room Invasion | 13% | 8% | 4 |
| General Physical Abuse | 13% | 5% | 3 |
| Kicking | 13% | 5% | 2 |
| Blocking Path | 6% | 5% | 1 |
| Pinching | 6% | 3% | 1 |
| Removing Resident from Bed | 6% | 3% | 1 |
| Smothering with pillow / suffocating | 6% | 3% | 1 |
| Scratching | 6% | 2% | 1 |
| Slamming door on fingers | 6% | 2% | 1 |
| Twisting . Bending Arm | 6% | 2% | 1 |
| Fighting over clothes / accusations of clothing theft | 6% | 1% | 1 |
| Slapping Hand Away | 6% | 1% | 1 |
| Spitting | 6% | 1% | 1 |
| Sexual Abuse | 38% | 18% | 10 |
| Attempting to get into bed | 13% | 18% | 2 |
| Physical abuse . inappropriate touching | 38% | 7% | 9 |
| Verbal sexual abuse | 13% | 5% | 2 |
All types of abuse mentioned by focus group participants are displayed in this table. Abuse sub-types are ordered within type (physical, verbal, sexual) based on the number of focus groups mentioning, then number of participants mentioning, then number of conversation blocks.
These participants may have directly mentioned this type of abuse or have participated in a conversation block wherein it was mentioned.
Focus groups were divided into conversation blocks where participants were discussing a specific resident or theme. The conversation blocks which addressed speciifc reasons / triggers were counted and those counts are displayed here.