Improving nurses' continuing vocational training in psychiatric hospitals and inpatient units

Completed

• Conditions: urses' continuing vocational training; Not Applicable

• Registration Number: ISRCTN32869544
• Lead Sponsor: European Commission (Belgium)

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2010-11-24
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2015

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 229

Inclusion Criteria

Ward eligibility criteria:
1. Closed acute psychiatric inpatient wards
2. Practicing seclusion and restraint
3. Not involved in on-going or planned seclusion/restraint research or development projects

Participant eligibility criteria:
1. On the wards registered nurse (permanent position psychiatric nurses/mental health nurses, long term substitute psychiatric nurses/mental health nurses, practical nurses, head nurses and deputy head nurses)
2. Aged over 18 years, either sex
3. Fluent understanding of Finnish language

Exclusion Criteria

Unable to use the Finnish language

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
urses' knowledge related to patients? rights and seclusion and restraint practices, measured at baseline (BL), 3 and 9 months.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
1. Nurses' attitudes related to seclusion and restraint practices (Attitudes Scale), measured at BL, 3 and 6 months<br>2. Nurses' attitudes related to mental illness (CAMI 2007), measured at BL, 3 and 6 months.<br>3. Nurses' general efficacy (General Self-Efficacy Scale) and job satisfaction (Job Diagnostic Survey, job satisfaction), measured at BL, 3 and 6 months<br>4. Seclusion and restraint incidents and length (Hospital Data Base) on the ward, measured at BL, 3, 6 and 12 months<br>5. Costs of the continuing vocational education (eLearning course and traditional method/education sessions; time, travel and deputy staff costs)