Self-Harm in Secure Mental Health Hospitals:Exper of Care Environments

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  Self Harm in Secure Mental Health Hospitals: Experiences of Care Environments. North West Greater Manchester West, 17/NW/0218

• IRAS ID

  171645

• Contact name

  ANDREWS DAKE

• Sponsor organisation

  University of Salford

• Duration of Study in the UK

  4 years, 3 months, 19 days

• Research summary

  TITLE: What are the Staff and People Who Self Harm of Self Harm in Secure Hospital.
  xperiences of people who Self Harm (SH) is pivotal to nurses and Health Care Assistants (HCA) who are at the front line of care in secure settings. Studies have indicated lived experiences of a large number of people who SH and/or staff who provide care for them in secure settings (DoH, 2016; Sandy, 2013; Babiker & Arnold, 1997). Research focusing on concurrent lived experiences and/or issues of everyday interactions of people who SH and staff who care for them in secure settings is limited (Barton-Breck & Heyman, 2012). This research intends to fill such a gap by conducting qualitative research building upon the work of Goffman’s (1969) concept of social institutions by exploring the knowledge and understanding of lived experiences of people who SH, nurses and HCA in three secure mental health hospitals in the North West of England. The researcher will adopt one-to-one interview techniques to gather data from a sample of (n=9) participants selected from three different secure hospitals. This comprises participant (n=1) from each category of people who self harm, nurses and health care assistants of the three hospitals.
  The research questions for the study are:
  How do people who SH make sense of their experiences?
  How do nurses make sense of their experiences caring for people who SH?
  How do HCA’s make sense of their experiences caring for people who SH?
  Who would be eligible?
  The study is about the experiences of people who self harm and staff such as nurses and health care assistants who care for them.
  The type of sites where the study will be conducted.
  The study will be conducted in three secure mental health hospitals in the North West of England.
  How long will the study last and what will the participants undergo?.
  The participants will undergo an interview session lasting for one and half hours.The study is anticipated to be completed at the end of the PhD programme.
  It is anticipated that the findings from this study would help illuminate experiences of service users' behaviour of self harm and their perceptions of which therapeutic interventions might help staff working with this group of people in the secure settings.
  Reference
  Babiker , G., & Arnold, L. (1997) The language of inquiry: Comprehending self-injury. Leicester: British Psychological Society.
  Department of Health (2016) Preventing suicide in England: A cross-government outcomes strategy to save lives. Mental Health and Disability Division. [website ] Available from: www.dh.gov.uk/publications.[access: 20 October 2016].
  Goffman, E. (1969) Asylums: essay on the social situation of mental patients and other
  Sandy, P.T. (2013) Motives for self-harm: Views of nurses in a secure unit. International Nursing Review, 60(3), Pp 358-365.

• REC name

  North West - Greater Manchester Central Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  17/NW/0218

• Date of REC Opinion

  21 Jun 2017

• REC opinion

  Further Information Favourable Opinion