Background: The deinstitutionalization of psychiatric care has led to a concentration of
patients to fewer wards. This leads to difficulties in separating voluntarily and involuntarily …

Accessible summary• Acute psychiatric wards, many of which are locked, are challenging
work environments. This study explores the experience of health‐care staff working on such …

Background: The psychological, social, and physical aspects of the ward milieu affect
treatment outcomes and patient satisfaction. The primary aim of the present study was to …

Recent changes in psychiatric hospital care involving a reduction in the number of beds and
time spent in hospital motivated the study of conditions of inpatient care on such wards. An …

This focused ethnographic study aims at describing encounters in the healthcare
environment on a locked psychiatric ward. It was carried out in Sweden on an acute …

Accessible summary• Some patients in psychiatric hospitals are considered difficult to treat.
Their ongoing conflicts with nurses and other health care professionals can result in a …

Purpose: To obtain insight into the patients' experiences during treatment in an acute, closed
psychiatric ward. Design and Methods: A systematic literature search was conducted in the …

The aim was to describe the nursing staff and ward managers' experiences of safety and
violence in everyday meetings with the patients. The qualitative content analyses resulted in …

Internationally, research on psychiatric intensive care units (PICUs) commonly reports
results from demographic studies such as criteria for admission, need for involuntary …

A structural change of the psychiatric services was started in Finland in the 1980s. Its
primary objective was to shift the main emphasis from hospital to outpatient services. Hence …