The poster illustrates efforts to prevent and reduce coercion by organizing and training of staff. Three different kind of staff instructors, all with a great experience in clinical psychiatry, teach and train new staff in how to prevent and reduce coercion.New staff members participate in...
In 2017 Norway introduced capacity-based legislation in mental health care with the aim of increasing patient autonomy and legal protection, and reducing the use of coercion. The aim of the study was to explore health professionals’ experiences of how capacity-based legislation affects healthcare services for...
Aim: In this study, we aim to gain insights in the self-harming behavior and in the relation with other aggressive behavior of patients admitted to a closed ward in a psychiatric hospital.Method: Data were gathered between September 2019 and January 2021. The Self-Harm Scale and...
Frequent staff exposure to violence and aggression can be a traumatic experience and may cause several problems in patients and in the workforce. For all parties it can lead to secondary traumatic stress.The aim was to develop and test a skill-station in de-escalation and explore...
This poster will present the methodology and early findings of a realist review of approaches to prevent and reduce the use of restrictive practices on adults with learning disabilities in healthcare organisations. A realist synthesis encompasses a theory-driven interpretation to make sense of complex approaches....
Aim: To investigate which formal coercive measures, (described by law), mental health patients and staff experience as least restrictive and how patients and staff rank various types of coercive measures.Methodology: The project consists of three sub studies: 1) a systematic review; 2) translation and validation...
The aim of the study is to investigate the significance of the different changes made to the environment in an adolescent psychiatric ward for the prevalence of restrictive interventions. In a retrospective study, information is being collected from documents on interventions targeted reduction of the...
Aim: To advance our understanding of nurses’ clinical decision-making concerning use of rapid tranqullisation in adult mental health inpatient settings. Methodology: An integrative review was conducted using the methodological framework described by Whittemore and Knafl (2005). Findings (preliminary): Altogether 151 meaning units were ed from...
The co-production of knowledge by diverse stakeholders, including experts, researchers, and service users, is becoming of increasing interest in mental health care. The paper highlights potential ethical dilemmas that arise in research involving service users as co-producers of knowledge. Prior to the research study, issues...
Assertive community treatment (ACT) is an integral part of the mental health care in many countries for providing treatment to individuals with severe mental illness (SMI) to prevent their hospitalization in case of mental illness exacerbation. In Latvia, measures to implement community based psychiatric care...