| Methods |
RCT, UK |
| Participants |
20 forensic mental health nurses |
| Interventions |
1) Experimental:Psychosocial Intervention Training: 20 days of training with the aim to improve nurses' knowledge about serious mental illness and attitude towards patients and thus decrease subjective burnout. Training duration 6 months. The training helps clinicians to conceptualise their patients' problems within a more empathic framework and trains them in the skills to intervene effectively. Thus self efficacy may increase and jobs may be perceived as more rewarding.
2) Control: No intervention |
| Outcomes |
MBI directly after training |
| Notes |
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| Risk of bias |
| Bias |
Authors' judgement |
Support for judgement |
| Random sequence generation (selection bias) |
Unclear risk |
"The 20 staff who volunteered for the PSI training were randomly allocated to either the experimental PSI training group (n=10) or a waiting list control group (n=10). The sample was stratified by ward, sex and day/night duty, thus subjects in each group represented all grades of staff and all wards." (p. 473) |
| Allocation concealment (selection bias) |
Unclear risk |
Not reported. |
| Blinding (performance bias and detection bias)
All outcomes |
High risk |
Not possible, self report |
| Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias)
All outcomes |
Unclear risk |
Presumably all participants completed all measurements as no data reported on dropouts. |
| Selective reporting (reporting bias) |
Low risk |
All outcomes reported. |
| Other bias |
Unclear risk |
We did not find any indications of other sources of bias. |
