The Facilitation and Evaluation of Trauma-informed Care
Research type
Research Study
Full title
The Facilitation and Evaluation of Trauma-informed Care in the NHS TEWV Foundation Trust Mental Health Service from the Perspective of the Theory of Complex Adaptive Systems.
IRAS ID
260006
Contact name
Petia Sice
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Northumbria University
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 11 months, 30 days
Research summary
The research focuses on the facilitation and evaluation of trauma-informed care in the NHS TEWV Foundation Trust, developing and testing a framework of culture-change informed by complexity science.
More specifically, this research study seeks to co-design an interface for culture-measurement using data gathered in focus groups with both staff and service users. This will involve focus group discussions centralised around formulated narratives of experience. This particular study follows the participatory action research (PAR) approach, which is an approach to research in which the objective is involving both researchers and participants in cooperation to generate a shared understanding of a problematic situation and move forward with the intention of changing it for improvement. PAR tests the boundaries of the world, with attempts to change it, by working together and in reflection. Focus groups will be held in "Socratic Cafe" manner. A "Socratic Cafe" is an informal research structure designed for focus group discussions, comprising and coalescing the Socratic Dialogue method and the World Cafe method. The Socratic Dialogue is a formal method, in which a small group(5-15 people), guided by a facilitator, with the intention to finish on consensus with an accurate answer to a universal question. The World Cafe method is a structured process designed to engage participants in conversations for enhancement of knowledge sharing.
The participants of the research will be volunteers, both staff from the NHS TEWV trust, from different departments and service users. The focus groups will take place on NHS sites. The participants will be required to complete a narrative template prior to the attendance of the focus group. They will share this experience with the group and derive meaning together. This process will then be refined to produce principles, extrapolated from the narratives. A third focus group will be held to amalgamate data from both workshops.
REC name
Yorkshire & The Humber - South Yorkshire Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
19/YH/0068
Date of REC Opinion
11 Mar 2019
REC opinion
Unfavourable Opinion