NCT00184132

The Effects of Different Interior Decorations in a Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 54 (actual)
• Sponsor: Norwegian University of Science and Technology · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of the study is to compare effects of treatment of patients acutely admitted to a Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) with either a sparsely decorated interior or interior decorations like an ordinary, Norwegian home.

Detailed description

The PICU in Østmarka psychiatric department, St. Olavs Hospital contains 2 identical parts. Each part contains 2 beds. The PICU had a traditional sparsely decorated interior. In cooperation with architects and the county building authorities one of the parts were redecorated to an interior like an ordinary Norwegian home. All patients admitted the the PICU were semi-randomized to either traditional or "Norwegian home" interior decorations. Symptoms, behaviour, and treatment were evaluated at admittance, day 3 and discharge from the PICU

Conditions

• Mental Disorders

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Psychiatric intensive care unit in Norwegian home style
PROCEDURE	Psychiatric intensive care unit sparsely furnished and not decorated

Timeline

• Start date: 2000-11-01
• Primary completion: 2010-06-01
• Completion: 2010-06-01
• First posted: 2005-09-16
• Last updated: 2017-03-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Norway