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Time Together: A Multi-site Nursing Intervention Project Using a Single System Experimental Design

NCT02981563 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 3

Last updated 2017-10-26

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Summary

The aim of this project is to test and evaluate a nursing intervention, Time Together (TT), created to enable quality interactions between patients and staff in psychiatric inpatient care. The research questions are:

Does TT influence the quality of interactions between staff and patients? Does TT influence patients' levels of anxiety and depressive symptoms? Does TT influence staffs' levels of perceived stress and levels of stress of conscience? Does TT influence the prevalence of coercive measures, mean length of hospital stay and the use of PRN medication?

In parallel, a process evaluation will be conducted, answering questions such as:

How do staff and patients describe their experiences of the intervention and how do contextual factors influence the effects of the intervention? What are the relationship between the outcome variables and the degree of compliance with the intended intervention? What problems are there with recruitment and dropouts?

Conditions

  • Mental Health Nursing
  • Nurse-Patient Relations

Interventions

OTHER

Time Together

For a fixed time during the day, staff dedicates their time to exclusively engage with the patients. Different activities will be offered to both patients and staff, such as playing board games, taking a walk, or having individual conversations. Other duties of more administrative nature, visits and meetings will be performed at other times during the day. Through this, opportunities for interaction are both created and protected.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Umeå University

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-01-31
Primary Completion
2017-06-30
Completion
2017-11-30

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