Aim To identify, critically evaluate, and synthesise the empirical evidence about therapeutic
leave from mental health inpatient settings. Background “Leave” occurs when a mental …

Purpose Continuous observation of psychiatric inpatients aims to protect those who pose an
acute risk of harm to self or others, but involves intrusive privacy restrictions. Initiating …

BackgroundObservations in psychiatric in-patient settings are used to reduce suicide, self-
harm, violence and absconding risk. The study aims were to describe the characteristics of …

Despite their widespread use, typical visual observation practices are not evidence‐based
and adverse events–such as self‐harm and absconding–still occur even under the most …

BACKGROUND: Continuous Special Observation (CSO) is commonly ordered for patients at
risk to injure themselves or others and involves assigning staff to monitor one patient at all …

“It's not waiting to be found, not missing, not lost or anything like that—just not wanting to be
found for a while”[Formerly missing woman]. When an adult goes missing, there is often an …

Background: Observation is an important approach to care that is commonly used in
inpatient learning disability services to prevent self-harming behaviours. It is often …

Using a single case study design, we evaluated the progress of a young person in terms of
incidents of challenging behaviours, and restrictive practice use following the introduction of …

Mental Health Issues and Missing Adults Page 1 79 7 Mental Health Issues and Missing Adults
Penny S. Woolnough, Llian Alys and Francis Pakes Introduction A lot of it is to do with mental …

Enhanced observations (EO) have been integral to mental health nursing care for decades.
However, research examining patient's experiences of EO within forensic mental health …