“It’s all about the trauma”
Research type
Research Study
Full title
“It’s all about the trauma”: an exploration of the facilitators and barriers to positive treatment outcomes for individuals 18 years and over, with a personal experience of complex needs and trauma, within a medium and low secure hospital setting.
IRAS ID
263987
Contact name
Dorothy Newbury-Birch
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Teesside University
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
Ethics Committee SSSBLEC241, School of Social Scienec, HumanIties and Law Ethics Committee
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 6 months, 29 days
Research summary
The proposed research is to look at trauma and complex needs and to determine if there is a connection between previous trauma and complexity within a forensic hospital setting. This is a clinical therapeutic setting. Recruitment eligibility will be any person aged 18 years and over who is currently being held as an inpatient under the Mental Health Act, 1983(s3), within a medium or low secure unit in one North East hospital. Recruitment will assume capacity and those deemed to not have capacity will not be eligible.\nThe research will be in three phases. Phase one, sift of quantitive data, phase two and three qualitative analysis. Phase one is a data search of hospital case notes to establish the domains of interest (trauma, substance misuse, mental health and FASD) within individuals personal files notes, phase two is eligibility for inclusion is based on an initial screening assessment using a set pre-determined criterion a screening assessment. And phase three is a qualitative (instrumental) case study which will involve participants undergoing three interviews with pre-set questions. \n\nThe research aims to contribute to learning and the body of evidence relating to both the setting and also the individuals within the setting i.e. trauma and complex needs within secure hospital setting. The research is informed by a prior systematic literature review which established that this clinical area lacks an evidence base. The intention of the research is to test and support the hypothesis that there is a connection between trauma and complex histories of patients. The study will last eighteen months in total, from initial scoping, relationship building, planning, undertaking the research and write up. The research will be written as part of a PhD thesis.\n\n
REC name
Yorkshire & The Humber - Leeds East Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
19/YH/0355
Date of REC Opinion
20 Nov 2019
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion