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Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis
Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis
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TY - BOOK
T1 - Issues in acute psychiatric inpatient services: staff experiences of suicide and risk-assessments
T2 - Clinical psychologists' experiences of patient death by suicide in psychiatric inpatient services: An IPA study; The quality of the psychometric properties of risk-to-self assessment tools validated on acute psychiatric inpatient samples: A systematic literature review
AU - Lagdon, Caela
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - This thesis presents four chapters: section one: systematic literature review; section two: empirical research paper; section three: critical appraisal; section four: ethics application. The systematic literature reviews offers a summary of risk-to-self (e.g. self-harm and suicide) risk-assessment tools validated for acute psychiatric inpatient settings. Sixteen reports were included in the review and ten psychometric properties of 15 risk-assessment tools were appraised using a quality rating system. The empirical study qualitatively explores the experiences of clinical psychologists who have had a patient die by suicide whilst working in acute psychiatric inpatient settings. Six participants’ experiences were analysed and interpreted using ‘Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis’ (IPA). The critical appraisal synthesises the finding of the systematic review and empirical study, and offers a deeper exploration of clinical recommendations and limitations of the reports. The final section includes the ethics application for the empirical study, the approval letter and supplementary documentation used to conduct the research.
AB - This thesis presents four chapters: section one: systematic literature review; section two: empirical research paper; section three: critical appraisal; section four: ethics application. The systematic literature reviews offers a summary of risk-to-self (e.g. self-harm and suicide) risk-assessment tools validated for acute psychiatric inpatient settings. Sixteen reports were included in the review and ten psychometric properties of 15 risk-assessment tools were appraised using a quality rating system. The empirical study qualitatively explores the experiences of clinical psychologists who have had a patient die by suicide whilst working in acute psychiatric inpatient settings. Six participants’ experiences were analysed and interpreted using ‘Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis’ (IPA). The critical appraisal synthesises the finding of the systematic review and empirical study, and offers a deeper exploration of clinical recommendations and limitations of the reports. The final section includes the ethics application for the empirical study, the approval letter and supplementary documentation used to conduct the research.
KW - Suicide
KW - Inpatient
KW - Inpatient settings
KW - staff perspectives
KW - Risk Assessment
KW - interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA)
KW - self-harm
KW - Mental Health
KW - Literature review
KW - patient death
KW - psychometric properties
KW - Acute psychiatric wards
KW - acute psychiatric setting
KW - client death
KW - Clinical psychologists
KW - staff experiences
U2 - 10.17635/lancaster/thesis/1812
DO - 10.17635/lancaster/thesis/1812
M3 - Doctoral Thesis
PB - Lancaster University
ER -