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Optimal Acute Adult Psychiatric In-patient Care in Hong Kong

NCT07097623 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 160

Last updated 2025-07-31

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Summary

This mixed-method study aims to evaluate the optimal number of hospital beds and quality of acute adult psychiatric inpatient care in Hong Kong using online Delphi surveys for psychiatric nurses and individual interviews for service users with mental health conditions and family caregivers. The main question it aims to answer is:

What are the consensus points for quality acute adult psychiatric inpatient care in Hong Kong from psychiatric nurses, service users, and caregivers?

Psychiatric nurses will respond to three rounds of online Delphi surveys, while service users and caregivers will attend individual semi-structured interviews.

Conditions

  • Psychiatric Hospitalization

Interventions

OTHER

respond to 3 rounds of online Delphi surveys

In the first round, the responses of the participants will be collected, coded, and categorised into several themes/factors anonymously. In the second round, the participants will obtain the controlled feedback of all other participants and rate the level of agreement of the factors using a 5-point Likert scale ('strongly agree', 'agree', 'neither agree or disagree', 'disagree', and 'strongly disagree'; or 'essential', 'important', 'don't know/depends', 'unimportant', and 'should not be considered'). In the third round, the participants will rank the importance of the factors. In each round, the participants will be expected to complete the survey within one month.

OTHER

attend an individual semi-structured interview

The individual semi-structured interview will be audio-recorded, last for 45 minutes at maximum, and carried out by a trained and independent research assistant in a meeting room of PolyU or a room affiliated with the respective acute wards of the participating hospitals.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Nethersole Institute of Continuing Holistic Health Education (NICHE)

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Dennis Chak Fai Ma, PhD · School of Nursing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
64 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-08-04
Primary Completion
2026-08-31
Completion
2026-08-31

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