It found treating people with mental ill health in hospitals with locked wards as opposed to hospitals without locked wards does not reduce their risk of suicide attempts or of absconding.
Phych hospital locked doors.
The first time i entered those doors was 14 years ago i was just 16 and hiding under a very thin white blanket while seated in a wheelchair.
A locked door may make the ward appear as both a prison and a sanctuary.
With these requirements many mental health staff members maintain that ward boundaries such as locked doors at certain times for treatment purposes are crucial.
My parents escorted through the doors.
Locked doors in psychiatric hospitals do not seem to improve the safety of patients.
If a patient learns that certain hours are for working and others are for sleeping it may assist the patient in more independent living.
That s how it felt to walk through the hospital door and enter the psychiatric ward for the first time.
A little bit surreal.
It is important that staff try to minimize patients concerns connected to the locked door.
Structural and practical changes are needed to promote open door hospital policies and should be assessed in future research.
How locked entrance doors at psychiatric wards are experienced by staff working on these wards has been investigated to a very limited extent.