Forensic Occupational Therapists Record Keeping Project

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  An investigation into the use of clinical records as a source of information for use in clinical reasoning by Occupational Therapists working with people who have mental health problems in secure settings in an English NHS Trust.

• IRAS ID

  152254

• Contact name

  Nigel Humphries

• Contact email

  nigel.humphries@nottshc.nhs.uk

• Research summary

  The study will focus on a group of Occupational Therapists working in secure hospitals with people who have mental health problems within an NHS Trust in England. This study will be investigating how Occupational Therapists use the records that they produce (such as assessment reports, diaries of contacts with patients and service users, and progress notes) in their work.
  This research will investigate how the different ways that formally collected information, informal notes and personal memories are used by Occupational Therapists to make decisions about the therapies they use with their patients and service users.

  Occupational Therapists will be interviewed about their work with a patient that they have selected, and this will be compared with written, typed and electronically stored documents that form a record of the Occupational Therapists work with that patient. Each participant will be interviewed twice, and the interview will last about 90 minutes. Between 10 and 15 participants will be interviewed in total.

  This study, when completed, should provide Occupational Therapists with an insight into how clinical records are produced, maintained and used by Occupational Therapist s in their practice.

• REC name

  East Midlands - Nottingham 2 Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  14/EM/1155

• Date of REC Opinion

  18 Nov 2014

• REC opinion

  Further Information Favourable Opinion