Assessment of newly developed observational tool.

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  Assessment of a newly developed observational tool to assess care interactions in inpatient mental health settings.

• IRAS ID

  158260

• Contact name

  Andrew Vidgen

• Contact email

  andre.vidgen@wales.nhs.uk

• Sponsor organisation

  Cardiff University

• Duration of Study in the UK

  0 years, 8 months, 1 days

• Research summary

  This study aims to developing a tool which is hoped to be able to support and further the use of recovery based principals in inpatient mental health services; this is both clinically relevant and inline with numerous policy and legislation. In the first stage of the tools develop, the research team used qualitative evidence into the Recovery process (Bonney & Stickley, 2008, Leamy, et al 2011) to generate codes. The codes were designed to capture interactions between staff and clients which the evidence base identified as important for Recovery. Following the initially development of the codes, a Delphi study was carried out. In this, Mental Health professionals working within the mentioned settings, rated the codes to develop a consensus for which codes should be included in the tool. (For a draft form of the codes see appendix A). The codes which the Delphi study identified as important were used to create the tool.
  Continuing from this, this part of the research aims to assess the tool's psychometric properties by using the tool in the above mentioned settings. The tool’s reliability will be assessed by considering the inter-rater reliability by two researchers observing and coding some of the same observations, and its validity will be assessed by using asking staff from a number of wards to complete standardised measures which accesses the Recover-orientated practice of a unit. This will be used to identify two wards with different Recovery orientations. The new tool will be piloted in each of the two wards and the findings statistically assessing to consider if the new tool detects a difference as demonstrated by the standardised measure.

• REC name

  London - City & East Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  16/LO/0389

• Date of REC Opinion

  23 Apr 2016

• REC opinion

  Further Information Favourable Opinion