SOS Inpatients: a pilot study of enhanced support, openness and supervision for staff working on adult mental health wards
ISRCTN | ISRCTN96754763 |
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DOI | https://doi.org/10.1186/ISRCTN96754763 |
Secondary identifying numbers | N/A |
- Submission date
- 03/09/2010
- Registration date
- 17/03/2011
- Last edited
- 17/05/2017
- Recruitment status
- No longer recruiting
- Overall study status
- Completed
- Condition category
- Mental and Behavioural Disorders
Prospectively registered
Protocol
Statistical analysis plan
Results
Individual participant data
Record updated in last year
Plain English summary of protocol
Not provided at time of registration
Contact information
Ms Anna Maratos
Scientific
Scientific
CNWL Trust Head of Arts Therapies
Community Mental Health Services
7a Woodfield Road
London
W9 2NW
United Kingdom
Study information
Study design | Pilot randomised controlled trial |
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Primary study design | Interventional |
Secondary study design | Randomised controlled trial |
Study setting(s) | Hospital |
Study type | Quality of life |
Participant information sheet | Not available in web format, please contact m.crawford@imperial.ac.uk to request a patient information sheet |
Scientific title | A pilot randomised controlled trial of enhanced support, openness and supervision for staff working on adult mental health wards |
Study acronym | SOS |
Study objectives | Primary hypothesis: One year after randomisation, staff working on mental health wards that receive interventions aimed at enhancing support, openness and supervision for staff will experience lower levels of burnout than those working on wards that do not. Secondary hypothesis: One year after randomisation, levels of staff turnover, staff sickness and use of agency staff will be lower on mental health wards that receive interventions aimed at enhancing support, openness and supervision for staff than on wards that do not. Tertiary hypothesis: One year after randomisation, the number of untoward incidents as recorded by incident report forms, will be lower on wards where staff receive enhanced support and supervision compared to wards that do not. |
Ethics approval(s) | West London Research Ethics Committee 2, 20/09/2010, ref:10/H0711/62 |
Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied | Mental health |
Intervention | A modified cognitive analytic therapy approach to clinical supervision for ward staff in groups. Entitled 'Sharing, Openness and Supervision', this aims to change ward culture so that morale is improved with a positive effect on patient care. The treatment arm will comprise one group per week of 1.5 hours clinical supervision for the ward team including staff members from all disciplines and from the ward leadership including at least one of ward manager, consultant and modern matron. Registered will be taken to record attendance and fidelity to this model. The clinical supervision groups will be run according to a Cognitive Analytic Therapy approach, adapted to this context. Please note that there is only one treatment arm; the control arm is not active. The duration of the intervention will be one year and data on job satisfaction will be collected from ward staff at the beginning and end of the year. There will be no follow up after the end of the intervention, but routine ward data on incidents, recruitment and retention and sickness is routinely collected and may be analysed at a future point if appropriate. |
Intervention type | Other |
Primary outcome measure | Staff-level data: All staff who make up the ward establishment, from a list supplied by the ward manager, will be approached. For these staff data collection will be completed on baseline measures prior to randomisation, using: 1. Maslach Burnout Inventory: a 15-item measure to assess emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation and personal accomplishment 2. Job Content Questionnaire: a 34-item measure to assess job-related stress 3. Basic demographic data: including age, gender and number of hours worked. We will collect this using a proforma specifically designed for the study. |
Secondary outcome measures | The following data will be collected from the ward and Trust databases: 1. Untoward incidents: 1.1. Total number of untoward clinical incidents on the ward including medication errors and near-misses in the 6 months prior to randomisation (March - August 2010) 2. Level of severity of clinical untoward incidents rated according to the IR1 form 5-point severity rating scale in the 6 months prior to randomisation 2. Staff costs (6 months prior to randomisation): 2.1. Agency and locum usage 2.2. Turnover of staff 2.3. Sickness rates among ward staff 2.4. Suspensions, disciplinaries |
Overall study start date | 01/11/2010 |
Completion date | 31/03/2012 |
Eligibility
Participant type(s) | Patient |
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Age group | Adult |
Sex | Both |
Target number of participants | 100 participants across 6 wards |
Key inclusion criteria | Staff working on acute open mental health wards in the London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea: St Charles Hospital and the South Kensington and Chelsea Centre for Mental Health. Data will not be collected from patients at any point during the course of the study. |
Key exclusion criteria | Does not meet inclusion criteria |
Date of first enrolment | 01/11/2010 |
Date of final enrolment | 31/03/2012 |
Locations
Countries of recruitment
- England
- United Kingdom
Study participating centre
CNWL Trust Head of Arts Therapies
London
W9 2NW
United Kingdom
W9 2NW
United Kingdom
Sponsor information
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (UK)
Hospital/treatment centre
Hospital/treatment centre
2nd Floor, Greater London House
Hampstead Road
Mornington Crescent
London
NW1 7QN
England
United Kingdom
Phone | +44 300 013 4799 |
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feedback.cnwl@nhs.net | |
Website | http://www.cnwl.nhs.uk |
https://ror.org/05drfg619 |
Funders
Funder type
Government
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (UK) - Innovation Fund
No information available
Results and Publications
Intention to publish date | |
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Individual participant data (IPD) Intention to share | No |
IPD sharing plan summary | Not provided at time of registration |
Publication and dissemination plan | Not provided at time of registration |
IPD sharing plan |
Study outputs
Output type | Details | Date created | Date added | Peer reviewed? | Patient-facing? |
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HRA research summary | 28/06/2023 | No | No |
Editorial Notes
17/05/2017: No publications found in PubMed, verifying study status with principal investigator