Background Hospital environments have recently received renewed interest, with
considerable investments into building and renovating healthcare estates. Understanding …

Background Satisfaction is seen as an indicator of the quality of mental health services and
has been related to outcomes and compliance with treatment. The current review seeks to …

Nurses who experience workplace violence exhibit compromised care quality and
decreased work morale, which may increase their turnover rate. This study explored …

Background A supportive ward atmosphere is considered by many to be a precondition for
successful treatment in forensic psychiatry, but there is a clear need for a valid and …

Everyday life consists of daily activities that are taken for granted. It forms the foundation for
human efforts and contains elements of both comfort and boredom. Because everyday life …

BackgroundThe physical environment is presumed to have an effect on aggression and also
on the use of seclusion on psychiatric wards. Multicentre studies that include a broad variety …

How patients and nurses experience the acute care psychiatric environment The concept of
the therapeutic milieu was developed when patients' hospitalizations were long …

Aim. This paper reports a study of psychiatric inpatient satisfaction with care in one Finnish
psychiatric hospital, and explores the factors associated with satisfaction. Background …

BACKGROUND: The interests of users should lead service developments. However, it has
been claimed that forensic mental health services have largely ignored examining users' …

Background Seclusion is an invasive clinical intervention used in inpatient psychiatric wards
as a continuation of milieu therapy with vast behavioural implications that raise many ethical …