NCT00184119

Effects of a Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit

Effects of a Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit in an Acute Psychiatric Department.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 118 (actual)
• Sponsor: Norwegian University of Science and Technology · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 110 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of the study is to compare the effects of using or not using a Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) in an acute psychiatric department.

Detailed description

The main aim of the study is to compare the effects of using or not using a Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) in an acute psychiatric department.The acute ward of Østmarka psychiatric department, St. Olavs Hospital has a PICU separated from the rest of the ward. The PICU is separated with a locked door. Under two different conditions at different times all patients evaluated to be in need of PICU were admitted to the PICU. In the first condition the doors inside the PICU and between the rest of the acute ward and PICU were closed or locked. In the second condition the doors inside the PICU and the door between the PICU and the rest of the acute ward were either removed or held permanently open. In the second condition the patients thus were admitted to a PICU unit not using PICU principles. The patients were evaluated with different rating scales at admittance, day three and at discharge from PICU.

Conditions

• Mental Disorders

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit
PROCEDURE	Care in whole acute unit	psychiatric acute care as usual

Timeline

• Start date: 2001-10-01
• Primary completion: 2010-06-01
• Completion: 2010-06-01
• First posted: 2005-09-16
• Last updated: 2024-11-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Norway