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Abstract Aggression affects every person in the environment where it occurs A violent client may be in juried directly from aggressive behavior or during a restraining procedure. Other clients and staff members may be purposefully or accidentally injured. Nurses working in psychiatric hospitals are threatened,verbally abused, and physically assaulted at higher rates than other professionals,so psychiatric nurses are at the highest risk of violence compared with other hospital nurses. The present study aimed to assess the psychiatric nurses’and patients’ perception towards aggression in Tanta Mental Health Hospital.This study followed a descriptive research design and it was conducted at Tanta Mental Health Hospital.The subjects of the study consisted of 50nurses from Tanta Mental Health Hospital and 50 patient s from the same setting The following tools were used for data collection Tool I:- Structured Interview Schedule (Appendix I ) It consisted of three parts and it was developed by the researcher after reviewing the related literature. |