The effectiveness of user-driven intervention to manage patient aggression in mental health services

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Maritta Välimäki, PhD, RN
Professor
Nurse manager, Hospital District of Southwest Finland
mava@utu.fi
tel.int  +358-2-333 8495

CO-INVESTIGATORS

Minna Anttila
Virve Pekurinen
Tella Lantta
Kaisa Kauppi
Kati Kannisto

AIM

To

a) create sophisticated computation models to gain an understanding of patient aggressive events in clinical practice
b) design a novel intervention to manage aggressive behaviour among patients on the psychiatric wards
c) implement the intervention into psychiatric services and describe its acceptance, feasibility, easy to use, adherence and efficiency within psychiatric hospitals

CONTENT

• complex factors and outcomes related patient aggression on psychiatric wards based on national wide health register data
• a new intervention to prevent and manage patient aggressive behaviour on psychiatric services in collaboration with service users, relatives, and staff members
• estimation of acceptance, feasibility, easy to use, adherence and efficiency within psychiatric hospitals

IMPLICATIONS

• knowledge of national wide health register data
• information on the basis of consumer-designed intervention
• information about how to improve patient care especially in restrictive health environments

DOCTORAL DISSERTATION

• Virve Pekurinen

Students

• Laura Willman

COLLABORATORS

• Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health, USA
• University of Nottingham, Mental Health Service Research, Division of Psychiatry & Cochrane Schizophrenia Group, UK
• Sichuan University of China
• Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Department of Epidemiology, National School of Public Health, Brazil
• Stanford University, Department of Medicine, Patient Education Research Center, USA

FUNDERS

• Academy of Finland