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| Name | Class |
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| St. Olavs Hospital | OTHER |
| County of South Trøndelag | UNKNOWN |
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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.
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
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Norwegian home style ward | Experimental | The walls received wainscots, colourful wallpaper and paintings; the ceilings were lowered and had multiple lighting spots, the windows tasteful curtains; we put wardrobes, chairs, flowers and personal items in the patient rooms; and Italian ceramic tile covered the entire bathroom |
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| sparsely furnished ward | Active Comparator | traditional interior design and furnishings. The rooms had sparse furniture, walls in grey colours lacking pictures, no window curtains, single lamps in the ceiling 4 m high, bathroom with grey, laminated paint all over, and patient rooms with a single bed and a chair of metal tubes |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Psychiatric intensive care unit in Norwegian home style | Procedure |
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| Psychiatric intensive care unit sparsely furnished and not decorated |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Length of stay in days | 1 month | |
| Scores on general psychiatric rating scale | Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) | 3 days |
| Scores on violent or threatening incidents | recorded with Staff Observation Aggression ScaleRevised (SOAS-R) | 3 days |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Therapeutic steps daily | 3 days |
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Olav M Linaker, Professor | Norwegian University of Science and Technology | Study Chair |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Østmarka Psychiatric Department, St. Olavs Hospital | Trondheim | 7441 | Norway |
| PubMed Identifier | Type | Citation | Retractions |
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| 16195094 | Result | Vaaler AE, Morken G, Linaker OM. Effects of different interior decorations in the seclusion area of a psychiatric acute ward. Nord J Psychiatry. 2005;59(1):19-24. doi: 10.1080/08039480510018887. | |
| 21418581 | Derived | Vaaler AE, Iversen VC, Morken G, Flovig JC, Palmstierna T, Linaker OM. Short-term prediction of threatening and violent behaviour in an Acute Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit based on patient and environment characteristics. BMC Psychiatry. 2011 Mar 18;11:44. doi: 10.1186/1471-244X-11-44. |
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| ID | Term |
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| D001523 | Mental Disorders |
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| 20958975 | Derived | Flovig JC, Vaaler AE, Morken G. Effects of legal and illegal use of benzodiazepines at acute admission to a psychiatric acute department. BMC Res Notes. 2010 Oct 19;3:263. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-3-263. |