[Therapeutic alliance between sectorial psychiatry inpatients and nurses and aides: A prospective, observational and cross-sectional study].

ABSTRACT:

Background

Therapeutic alliance represents a rarely studied object when it relates to nurses and care provided by a nursing team in acute care hospitalization.

Objective

The objective was to study how factors might influence the therapeutic alliance built between nurses and aides and adult inpatients in an acute care unit of sectorial general psychiatry.

Method

This is a prospective, observational and cross-sectional study using a therapeutic alliance measurement scale. Therapeutic alliance (TA) score was measured with a STAR-P scale in a sample of 240 patients.

Results

The median score found is 33.4 (±7.8) out of a maximum theoretical score of 48. The global score of TA in patients aged 60 years old or more is significantly higher than the score of patients be

SUBMITTER: Morvillers JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9561694 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature