The Effects of Different Interior Decorations in a Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit.
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 54
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Length of stay in days
研究概览
简要总结
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.
详细描述
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
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Non Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •All patients acutely admitted to the PICU, St. Olavs Hospital, Østmarka dep.
排除标准
- •Patients with dementia or mental retardation to an extensive degree.
- •Patients not speaking Norwegian or English
研究组 & 干预措施
Norwegian home style ward
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
干预措施: Psychiatric intensive care unit in Norwegian home style (Procedure)
sparsely furnished ward
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
干预措施: Psychiatric intensive care unit sparsely furnished and not decorated (Procedure)
结局指标
主要结局
Length of stay in days
时间窗: 1 month
Scores on violent or threatening incidents
时间窗: 3 days
recorded with Staff Observation Aggression ScaleRevised (SOAS-R)
Scores on general psychiatric rating scale
时间窗: 3 days
Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS)
次要结局
- Therapeutic steps daily(3 days)