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Dr
Katherine
Berry
katherine.berry@manchester.ac.uk
Kate
Allsopp
kate.allsopp@gmmh.nhs.uk
Neurotic, stress-related and somatoform disorders
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Acute mental health inpatient wards are stressful to work on, for example, staff experience violence, verbal abuse and see patients harming themselves. Together, these experiences are known as ‘workplace trauma.’ Staff have also told us that racism, homophobia and abuse targeting disabilities happen a lot and can add to other workplace traumas. Our experience has told us that staff are not getting the support that they need. People from minority groups said that they had particular difficulties getting support at work. We want to find out what stops inpatient staff seeking or getting help and what could break down barriers.
To do this, we will interview inpatient mental health staff, their managers and more senior people who have a say on staff support. The interviews will ask these people about their experiences of workplace trauma, changes that need to happen for them to access support and any positive examples of support. To make sure we are understanding the needs of all staff, at least half of the people we interview will be members of an ethnic and/or sexual minority group (LGBTQI+) and/or have a disability. We will also make sure we interview people from different professions, age groups and genders, as other studies have found that help seeking is influenced by age and men find it harder to seek help.
We will use the information from the interviews to make recommendations for how mental health wards can reduce the impact of workplace trauma and increase access to support for all staff.
Start dates may differ between countries and research sites. The research team are responsible for keeping the information up-to-date.
The recruitment start and end dates are as follows:
Observational type: Qualitative;
You can take part if:
You may not be able to take part if:
Exclusion criteria will be limited to: not willing or able to provide informed consent to participate; or without the relevant experience detailed above (A17-1).
Below are the locations for where you can take part in the trial. Please note that not all sites may be open.
The study is sponsored by GREATER MANCHESTER MENTAL HEALTH NHS FOUNDATION TRUST and funded by NIHR Central Commissioning Facility (CCF) .
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