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WardSonar: a real-time measure of safety for mental health wards

Developing a service user centred co-designed patient safety intervention for acute mental health wards: A mixed methods process evaluation

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Observational
Source
ISRCTN
Registry ID
ISRCTN14470430
Enrollment
120
Registered
2022-01-10
Start date
2022-01-10
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2025-01-06

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Safety on mental health wards Mental and Behavioural Disorders

Interventions

A mixed-methods process evaluation. A focused ethnography will explore how staff communicate and use safety data supported by interviews with service users and staff to further understand feasibility
enhanced understanding of feasibility and acceptability. The digital intervention consists of up to four discrete ‘products’: a service user recording interface to collect data
healthcare staff dashboard for data analysis
a ward interface for public consumption
an Application Program Interface (API). The primary tool asks services users to answer a series of questions about how safe they feel recorded on a hand held tablet. Data will be recorded in real-time

Sponsors

University of Leeds
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: 1. Service user aged over 16 years 2. Current inpatient of a mental health ward 3. Capacity to consent to participate in research 4. Able to communicate in spoken English

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Does not meet inclusion criteria

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Quantitative evaluation of the ‘effect’ of the intervention on patient safety: 1. Continuous routine safety data (incidents, NHS mental health safety thermometer (monthly), workforce data, admissions/discharges, and ward occupancy and acuity) 2. Standard measures of culture and ward atmosphere (measures from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSOPC), staff perceptions of ‘ward atmosphere’ using the EssenCES scale), pre and post intervention for each participating ward

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
Qualitative evaluation: Undertake a focused ethnography to explore the use of the intervention across a variety of wards and organisational settings. This combination of data will support an exploration of the intervention in terms of its’ use within each context, the challenges of engaging with the intervention, unintended consequences (positive and negative, and how these are mitigated), as well as an understanding of the likely requirements for a future trial design (outcomes, challenges, supporting factors etc). This will be presented as a case study for each ward.

Countries

England, United Kingdom

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ISRCTN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 6, 2026