The Experience of Therapeutic Endings for Low Secure Service Users. V3
Research type
Research Study
Full title
The Experience of Endings for Low Secure Service Users: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis. With therapeutic endings encompassing the end of therapy, staff endings and service endings.
IRAS ID
322445
Contact name
Sophie Collingwood
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Southampton
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
N/A, N/A
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 0 months, 2 days
Research summary
Secure inpatient settings are hospitals that support people with mental health difficulties under the mental health act, who present as a risk to themselves or others, which requires management in a secure setting. People in secure psychiatric inpatient settings often experience many endings, including therapeutic endings, such as staff leaving the service, patients transitioning between services and ending psychological/other therapy, in which attachment plays a key role
Despite the multiple endings this population may experience, there appears to be a gap in the literature on service user experiences of endings more generally within secure inpatient settings, with most research focusing on ending psychological therapy.This qualitative project aims to interview adults (18+) detained under the Mental Health Act in a Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust low secure hospital, to explore the lived experience of therapeutic endings within a low secure service and explore the meaning that might be given to these experiences. It is hoped that once a better understanding is gained of what might affect a service user’s experience of an ending, that this may support low secure psychiatric hospitals to understand what might help facilitate endings in a purposeful, meaningful way for some service users, which may minimise distress and model more positive endings that this client group may not have had access to (Tapp et al., 2013). Interviews will be analysed using qualitative methods.
REC name
North of Scotland Research Ethics Committee 2
REC reference
23/NS/0048
Date of REC Opinion
23 May 2023
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion