| Literature DB >> 31538943 |
Ben Greer1, Katie Newbery1,2, Matteo Cella1,2, Til Wykes1,2.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Monitoring risk of imminent aggression in inpatient forensic mental health services could be supported by passive remote monitoring technology, but staff attitudes toward the relevance and likelihood of engagement with this technology are unknown.Entities:
Keywords: aggression; remote sensing technology; risk assessment; telemedicine; wearable sensors
Year: 2019 PMID: 31538943 PMCID: PMC6754691 DOI: 10.2196/15620
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Med Internet Res ISSN: 1438-8871 Impact factor: 5.428
Participants’ demographic characteristics.
| Characteristics | Focus group | Total (N=25) | Member-checking groups (n=18) | ||||||||||||||
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| 1 (n=6) | 2 (n=6) | 3 (n=4) | 4 (n=5) | 5 (n=4) |
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| Mean (SD) | 37.8 (12.4) | 39.5 (11.3) | 37 (10.8) | 55.4 (7.4) | 44.5 (5.1) | 42.7 (11.6) | 44.4 (12.8) | |||||||||
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| Range | 22-54 | 25-57 | 25-51 | 44-64 | 41-52 | 22-64 | 22-64 | |||||||||
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| Female | 3 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 12 | |||||||||
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| Male | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 6 | |||||||||
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| Black African | 4 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 15 | |||||||||
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| Black Caribbean | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | |||||||||
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| White British | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | |||||||||
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| Staff nurse | 5 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 20 | 16 | |||||||||
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| Student nurse | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | |||||||||
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| Ward manager | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||
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| Higher-level qualification (eg, university degree, professional qualification) | 5 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 22 | 17 | |||||||||
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| Secondary (A-level equivalent) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | |||||||||
| Time in post, mean (SD) | 5 years, 5 months (3 years, 5 months) | 5 years (4 years, 9 months) | 4 years (5 years, 8 months) | 10 years, 9 months (4 years, 8 months) | 4 years, 7 months (2 years, 1 month) | 6 years, 6 months (3 years, 5 months) | 6 years, 5 months (4 years, 9 months) | ||||||||||

Themes and subthemes identified through thematic analysis.