An analysis of young people’s experiences of OT at Brookside

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  An interpretative phenomenological analysis of young people’s experiences of Occupational Therapy in a tier four service.

• IRAS ID

  160256

• Contact name

  Sara Roberts

• Contact email

  sara.roberts@bangor.ac.uk

• Sponsor organisation

  Bangor University

• Research summary

  The study aims to understand how young people experienced Occupational Therapy whilst they were a patient at Brookside, a tier four child and adolescent mental health unit in London. The Department of Health (2003) considers that tier four services provide highly specialised treatment, meeting the needs of those with severe or enduring mental health conditions.

  Brookside provides a service for 12- 18 year olds across 3 wards; a four bed high dependency unit, a fourteen bed ward and a twelve bed day service. Young people admitted to these services often have two or more disorders and other known risk factors for mental health conditions (Kurtz 2009).

  Participants (ex-patients at least 4 months post discharge) will take part in semi structured interviews where they will be asked about their experiences of:

  What they did during individual and group OT sessions and how this related to their recovery.
  
  How sessions affected what they did on a day to day basis, then and after discharge.

  What did they think about the role of the OT in these sessions? Did that change?
  
  What were their experience of their skill levels and engagement in occupations before treatment at Brookside and since discharge from Brookside?

  There is currently little known about young people’s experiences of their OT treatment and it is hoped that by getting a better understanding of young people’s experiences this can inform future practice and service deliver. There will be between four and six participants in the study and interpretative phenomenological analysis will be used to look for themes from the transcripts of the participants experiences (Smith 2009). The information from this study may also be disseminated in journals or at conferences.

• REC name

  North of Scotland Research Ethics Committee 2

• REC reference

  14/NS/1039

• Date of REC Opinion

  14 Aug 2014

• REC opinion

  Further Information Favourable Opinion