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Over the top? Reducing staff training in physical interventions
Author(s) -
Kaye Neil,
Allen David
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
british journal of learning disabilities
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.633
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1468-3156
pISSN - 1354-4187
DOI - 10.1046/j.1468-3156.2002.00199.x
Subject(s) - psychological intervention , learning disability , training (meteorology) , unit (ring theory) , challenging behaviour , psychology , nursing , medical education , medicine , psychiatry , physics , mathematics education , meteorology
Summary The use of emergency physical interventions on an acute admission unit for persons with learning disability and challenging behaviour was monitored over a 9‐month period. Only a minority of the physical interventions that were taught to staff were actually used in practice. Possible reasons for this discrepancy are discussed, and a number of potential sources of bias in estimating the original training requirements for the service identified. Implications for changing the training programme are described.