NCT06547671

Efficacy of a Sensory Comfort Room in Agitation Control

Evaluation of the Effectiveness of a Comfort-sensory Room in the Control of Agitation in a Functional Mental Health Rehabilitation Area

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 62 (actual)
• Sponsor: Bioaraba Health Research Institute · Network
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

In the initial approach of the study, it was considered that the comfort room would be used by all patients with GCT treated in the Functional Rehabilitation Area 1 (ARF 1) of the Álava Psychiatric Hospital. However, with the onset of the covid-19 pandemic, the service itself decided to separate the patients into two units, in order to reduce positive contacts. Consequently, the use of the comfort room will only be available for one of the two units, which will be considered as the intervention group, while the other unit will be considered as the control group. It is also important to note that the patients in the intervention group unit have a more severe mental state than those in the control group. The control group are older and more psychopathologically stable patients. So already from the initial moment of the study they are two populations with different characteristics. Main Objective: To determine the effectiveness of the use of a sensory comfort room in the functional rehabilitation area 1 of the HPA. It would be considered effective if mechanical restraints decrease by 5% in the intervention group with respect to the previous year.

Conditions

• Mental Disorders, Severe

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Employment of a confort room to help in anxiety and agitation moments.	Use of the sensory comfort room located in the unit itself, decorated in soft and relaxing tones with motifs inspired by nature. It has relaxation sofas, rocking chair, aromatherapy, chromotherapy, projector, music of the user's choice, weighted blanket mats, balls of various sizes......... to teach people admitted to the area alternatives to cope and control anxiety and prevent the escalation of agitation, as well as to guide them in strategies to help them relax.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-05-01
• Primary completion: 2022-05-01
• Completion: 2023-05-01
• First posted: 2024-08-09
• Last updated: 2024-08-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain