METRO
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Investigating therapeutic involvement in relationships between ward staff and service users in adult forensic mental health inpatient settings: A qualitative study.
IRAS ID
315352
Contact name
Jade Robinson
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Surrey
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 6 months, 31 days
Research summary
This study is a qualitative study involving individual interviews with registered mental health nurses, healthcare assistants, support workers (n= 15-20) and service users (n= 15-20). The topic guide will be based around people’s experiences of therapeutic over and under involvement in forensic inpatient settings. Interviews will be recorded and transcribed verbatim then subjected to Thematic Analysis. Data analysis will be supported by NVivo software.
Interviews will take place at St Bernard's Hospital and Broadmoor Hospital.
The aim of the interviews will be to define over- and under- involvement in a way that is acceptable to service users and nursing staff and to capture their perspectives of any specific factors of therapeutic relationships or over- / under- involvement to be submitted to an item bank of questions that may be used in a potential new scale to measure these concepts in forensic inpatient settings.
The objectives:
To determine what would be acceptable language for a new scale, by conducting semi-structured interviews;
To determine how to identify over / under- involvement, by analysing and synthesising transcripts of interviews;
To gain insight regarding why it is important to nursing staff and service users to be able to measure this and what implications may arise if it is not measured, by analysing and synthesising transcripts of interviews.REC name
North of Scotland Research Ethics Committee 2
REC reference
24/NS/0077
Date of REC Opinion
26 Jul 2024
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion