The Effects of Different Interior Decorations in a Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit.

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Completed

• Conditions: Mental Disorders
• Interventions: Procedure: Psychiatric intensive care unit sparsely furnished and not decorated; Procedure: Psychiatric intensive care unit in Norwegian home style

• Registration Number: NCT00184132
• Lead Sponsor: Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Brief Summary

The purpose of the study is to compare effects of treatment of patients acutely admitted to a Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) with either a sparsely decorated interior or interior decorations like an ordinary, Norwegian home.

Detailed Description

The PICU in Østmarka psychiatric department, St. Olavs Hospital contains 2 identical parts. Each part contains 2 beds. The PICU had a traditional sparsely decorated interior. In cooperation with architects and the county building authorities one of the parts were redecorated to an interior like an ordinary Norwegian home. All patients admitted the the PICU were semi-randomized to either traditional or "Norwegian home" interior decorations. Symptoms, behaviour, and treatment were evaluated at admittance, day 3 and discharge from the PICU

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2000-11
• Study First Submitted: 2005-09-09
• Study First Submitted QC: 2005-09-15
• Study First Posted: 2005-09-16
• Primary Completion: 2010-06
• Study Completion: 2010-06
• Status Verified: 2017-03
• Last Update Submitted: 2017-03-10
• Last Update Posted: 2017-03-13

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 54

Inclusion Criteria

• All patients acutely admitted to the PICU, St. Olavs Hospital, Østmarka dep.

Exclusion Criteria

• Patients with dementia or mental retardation to an extensive degree.
• Patients not speaking Norwegian or English

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
sparsely furnished ward	Psychiatric intensive care unit sparsely furnished and not decorated	traditional interior design and furnishings. The rooms had sparse furniture, walls in grey colours lacking pictures, no window curtains, single lamps in the ceiling 4 m high, bathroom with grey, laminated paint all over, and patient rooms with a single bed and a chair of metal tubes
Norwegian home style ward	Psychiatric intensive care unit in Norwegian home style	The walls received wainscots, colourful wallpaper and paintings; the ceilings were lowered and had multiple lighting spots, the windows tasteful curtains; we put wardrobes, chairs, flowers and personal items in the patient rooms; and Italian ceramic tile covered the entire bathroom

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Scores on general psychiatric rating scale	3 days	Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS)
Length of stay in days	1 month
Scores on violent or threatening incidents	3 days	recorded with Staff Observation Aggression ScaleRevised (SOAS-R)

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Therapeutic steps daily	3 days

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Østmarka Psychiatric Department, St. Olavs Hospital; 🇳🇴 Trondheim, Norway