Improving Social Climate in Secure Settings With a Compassion Focused Staff Intervention
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 96
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Staff-Perceived Social Climate
研究概览
简要总结
This study evaluates the effectiveness of a Compassion Focused Staff Support (CFSS) intervention in improving the social climate of correctional and forensic psychiatric institutions. The intervention is based on Compassion Focused Therapy and designed to support staff in managing stress, enhancing affect regulation, and strengthening compassion toward self and others. Three institutional units are included in the study. One unit is randomly selected to receive the full CFSS intervention, including a half-day introductory workshop and monthly staff support sessions over six months. A second unit serves as a control group and receives no intervention. A third unit receives only the initial workshop without follow-up sessions. The effect of the intervention is evaluated using a pre-test/post-test design. Outcomes include changes in staff-reported and client-reported social climate, assessed with validated questionnaires, as well as institutional data on critical incidents. The study aims to improve working conditions in secure settings and foster more compassionate, effective staff-client interactions.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Non Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Supportive Care
- 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
- 是
入选标准
- •Staff Participants:
- •Employed at one of the participating correctional or forensic psychiatric units
- •Aged 18 years or older
- •Willing to provide informed consent
- •Client Participants:
- •Residing in one of the participating correctional or forensic psychiatric units at the time of data collection.
- •Aged 18 years or older.
- •Capable of providing informed consent
排除标准
- •Staff Participants:
- •- None (all eligible staff are invited to participate)
- •Client Participants:
- •Not capable of providing informed consent (e.g., due to acute psychiatric crisis or cognitive impairment).
- •Not deemed competent to participate by treatment team.
研究组 & 干预措施
Intervention
Full CFSS Group (Workshop + Monthly Groups)
干预措施: Compassion Focused Staff Support (Behavioral)
Partial
Workshop-Only Group
干预措施: CFT Workshop (Behavioral)
Control
No intervention
结局指标
主要结局
Staff-Perceived Social Climate
时间窗: T0 (6 months before start of the intervention), T1 (2 weeks before start of the intervention), T2 (2 weeks after last session of the intervention)
Staff perceptions of social climate will be assessed using the Essen Climate Evaluation Schema (EssenCES), a self-report questionnaire.
Compassion
时间窗: T0 (6 months before start of the intervention), T1 (2 weeks before start of the intervention), T2 (2 weeks after last session of the intervention)
Compassionate attitudes and behaviours will be measured using the German version of the Compassionate Engagement and Action Scales (CEAS) to assess staff capacity for self- and other-directed compassion. The CEAS is a self-report questionnaire.
次要结局
- Client-Perceived Social Climate(T0 (6 months before start of the intervention), T1 (2 weeks before start of the intervention), T2 (2 weeks after last session of the intervention))
- Critical Incidents(T0 (6 months before start of the intervention), T1 (2 weeks before start of the intervention), T2 (2 weeks after last session of the intervention))
研究者
Andrea Canel
MSc
University Psychiatric Clinics Basel