"The team needs to feel cared for": staff perceptions of compassionate care, aids and barriers in adolescent mental health wards.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Compassion is vital in healthcare. Current understandings of the nature of compassionate care, its aids and barriers, are more theoretically developed than grounded in staff experience. This study explores staff perceptions of compassionate care in child and adolescent mental health wards.

Methods

Three focus groups were conducted with a total of 35 staff from adolescent mental health wards (10-12 people in each group), on the nature of compassionate care, aids and barriers. Transcripts were analysed using thematic analysis. A follow-up survey with 36 workers from other UK child and adolescent mental health wards was completed and means and standard deviations of responses were analysed to confirm wider resonance of themes.

Results

Elements of compassionate

SUBMITTER: Maddox L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9340707 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature