Impact of the implementation of the safewards model on the social climate on adolescent psychiatric wards.

The Safewards model was created to reduce conflict and containment in psychiatric inpatient units. The model suggests alternative methods for containment and aims to create a safer hospital experience for both patients and staff. The evaluation of this model has provided evidence that it might be implemented on adolescent psychiatric wards.

Virtual reality for treatment compliance for people with serious mental illness.

Background: Virtual reality (VR) is computerised real-time technology, which can be used an alternative assessment and treatment tool in the mental health field. Virtual reality may take different forms to simulate real-life activities and support treatment.

Objectives: To investigate the effects of virtual reality to support treatment compliance in people with serious mental illness.

Psychiatric staff on the wards does not share attitudes on aggression.

Background: The concept of ward culture has been proposed as a reason for the often reported differences in treatment decisions when managing inpatient aggression. We therefore studied whether staff on wards actually shares similar perceptions and attitudes about aggression and whether the specialty of the ward on which the staff members work influences these opinions.

Methods: The Attitudes Towards Aggression Scale was used to assess attitudes towards aggression in 31 closed psychiatric wards.

Underaged patients' opinions toward different containment measures: a questionnaire survey in Finnish adolescent psychiatry.

Problem: The current literature does not provide an understanding of adolescent patients' opinions toward various containment measures and how these are related to the opinions of the staff who are caring for them.

Methods: The study population comprised 81 inpatients and 128 staff members in an inpatient setting in Finland. Their opinions were studied using the Attitude to Containment Measures Questionnaire.

Mechanical restraint in adolescent psychiatry: a Finnish Register study.

Background: Little is known of the use of mechanical restraint in adolescent psychiatry.

Aims: To investigate the frequency and features of mechanical restraint in the field of Finnish adolescent psychiatry.

Methods: The data were collected in the metropolitan area of Helsinki, Finland, with seven closed and eight open wards for Finnish-speaking 13-17-year-old adolescents.