Managing Patient Aggression in Mental Health Services

Summary

To compare the effects of an educational intervention to usual practice (no specified staff education) on improving treatment culture and supporting team climate in staff members, which further could reduce the need for the use of coercive methods in psychiatric care.

Conditions

• Aggression
• Mental Disorders

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Educational intervention

Educational intervention for staff members will encourage collaboration between patients, relatives and staff members. Skills, intellectual resources, motivation and encouragement among staff members to make changes on the unit will be supported. More detailed content of the intervention to be used in each unit will be tailored based on preparatory phase of the study and individual needs of the unit. The educational intervention will be carried out beside usual care.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Academy of Finland

  collaborator OTHER

• Turku University Hospital

  collaborator OTHER_GOV

• Harvard Medical School (HMS and HSDM)

  collaborator OTHER

• Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)

  collaborator OTHER

• Stanford University

  collaborator OTHER

• Sichuan University of China, China

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• University of Nottingham

  collaborator OTHER

• World Health Organisation, Philippines

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Turku

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Maritta Välimäki, Professor · University of Turku, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

99 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2016-02-29

Primary Completion

2018-12-31

Completion

2018-12-31