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Relationships between patients' perceived improvement and their evaluations of treatment components in a behaviorally‐oriented psychiatric inpatient unit
Author(s) -
Merkel William T.,
Wiener Richard L.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
behavioral interventions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.605
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1099-078X
pISSN - 1072-0847
DOI - 10.1002/bin.2360010404
Subject(s) - psychology , unit (ring theory) , mental health , outcome (game theory) , nursing staff , mental health nursing , perception , psychiatry , nursing , medicine , mathematics education , mathematics , mathematical economics , neuroscience
Patients on a behaviorally‐oriented inpatient psychiatric unit were asked to rate their perceptions of treatment outcome and the value of 16 program components in producing that outcome. Significant correlations were found between perceived outcome and positive evaluations of the overall behavioral treatment plan, individual meetings with nursing staff, individual meetings with team psychologists, assertion group training, and daily group therapy. Patients perceived individual meetings with the nursing staff to be the single most valuable program component among those related to favorable outcome. Implications for the increased utilization of nursing staff during a time of dwindling resources for mental health are discussed.