SOS Inpatients: a pilot study of enhanced support, openness and supervision for staff working on adult mental health wards
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- Mental healthMental and Behavioural Disorders
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN96754763
- Lead Sponsor
- Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (UK)
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 100
Inclusion Criteria
Staff working on acute open mental health wards in the London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea: St Charles Hospital and the South Kensington and Chelsea Centre for Mental Health.
Data will not be collected from patients at any point during the course of the study.
Exclusion Criteria
Does not meet inclusion criteria
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Staff-level data:<br>All staff who make up the ward establishment, from a list supplied by the ward manager, will be approached. For these staff data collection will be completed on baseline measures prior to randomisation, using:<br>1. Maslach Burnout Inventory: a 15-item measure to assess emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation and personal accomplishment<br>2. Job Content Questionnaire: a 34-item measure to assess job-related stress<br>3. Basic demographic data: including age, gender and number of hours worked. We will collect this using a proforma specifically designed for the study.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The following data will be collected from the ward and Trust databases:<br>1. Untoward incidents:<br>1.1. Total number of untoward clinical incidents on the ward including medication errors and near-misses in the 6 months prior to randomisation (March - August 2010)<br>2. Level of severity of clinical untoward incidents rated according to the IR1 form 5-point severity rating scale in the 6 months prior to randomisation<br>2. Staff costs (6 months prior to randomisation):<br>2.1. Agency and locum usage<br>2.2. Turnover of staff<br>2.3. Sickness rates among ward staff<br>2.4. Suspensions, disciplinaries