...Emily Mellor; Simon Duff Purpose This research paper reports findings from a qualitative analysis which explored pornography use in secure hospitals. The purpose of this paper is to investigate what attitudes staff working in secure hospital have towards patients having access to pornography, how...

.... Findings These ten papers provide an insight into factors associated with violence and aggression towards nursing staff. Three main themes were identified: the environment, attitudes/interaction of staff, and the patient’s mental illness. The themes were important factors in the causes of violence...

...Alan Meaden; David Hacker; Kerry Spencer Purpose Predicting the imminence of high risk behaviours in in‐patients with schizophrenia is an ongoing concern. The purpose of this paper is to explore the utility, validity and reliability of an adapted early warning signs methodology for dynamic risk...

...Tina Perry; Michael Barkham; Chris Evans Purpose The purpose of this paper is to establish staff and patient opinions on the acceptability, feasibility, and utility of using the Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluations – Outcome Measure (CORE‐OM) in secure hospitals. Design/methodology/approach...

...Helen Walker; Lindsay Tulloch; Colin Martin Purpose Reports on quality of life (QOL) measures for forensic patients are severely limited. The present paper aims to consider how to assess chronic patient's well‐being and to identify and evaluate the content validity of measures used to assess...

...Kathryn Evans; Craig D. Murray; Lorna Jellicoe‐Jones; Ian Smith Purpose Therapeutic relationships have been identified to be a key feature of staff working with patients within mental health settings and are widely referred to within research literature. The aim of this study is to explore...

...Lee Hollins; Brendon Stubbs Purpose The fallout from numerous inquiries into the death of patients, as well as the timely development of various pieces of anti‐discrimination and human rights legislation have all led to a major shift in the way physical restraint techniques are now used. Even so...

... a high‐secure hospital by interviewing patients directly. There has been relatively little research exploring DSH as experienced by patients in high‐secure hospitals, in spite the higher incidence rate of DSH within this patient group compared to the general population (Meltzer et al., 2002...

.../approach As evaluation and work on the SOTG is necessarily ongoing, case study descriptions of each patient who attended the SOTG and of their progress throughout SOTG are described. Findings Overall, the case study progress reports suggest that mentally disordered male patients made some notable...