Compassionate Care in Inpatient Adolescent Mental Health Settings v1.0
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Compassion care: definition, barriers and aids. A mixed-methods study in adolescent inpatient mental health settings.
IRAS ID
258419
Contact name
Pam Baxter
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
n/a
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 8 months, 31 days
Research summary
This project aims to help us understand kind and compassionate care in inpatient adolescent mental health settings: what it looks like, what helps it to happen and what gets in the way.
Compassionate care is important to patient experience and also to staff satisfaction.
This project asks both staff and patients in adolescent inpatient wards what they think compassionate care looks like and what helps it to happen and what gets in the way.
This will help to develop future research which draws on patient and staff definitions of compassionate care as well as patient and staff ideas for what would be useful to improve care experiences.
Multiple inpatient adolescent units in the southwest have agreed to take part, and staff and patients from these units will be invited to be involved in focus groups, held at their units, with separate focus groups for young people and for staff. Each participant will take part in just one focus group, and results from the focus groups held across the different wards will be analysed together for themes.
A further study using an online questionnaire will be carried out with inpatient staff from adolescent psychiatric units nationwide. This will check to see if common themes identified in the focus groups are also relevant to staff working in similar settings in the rest of England.
REC name
South West - Cornwall & Plymouth Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
19/SW/0072
Date of REC Opinion
17 Jun 2019
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion