Steve Wright

• Middlesex University

Aim: This study explored the views of an international sample of registered nurses and midwives working in health and social care concerning socially assistive robots (SARs), and the relationship between dimensions of culture and rejection of the idea that SARs had benefits in these settings. Methods: An online survey was used to obtain rankings...

Background: Spirituality is beneficial to health. Evidence around the benefits of Spiritual care (SC) is advancing, and training is becoming part of healthcare professional development. As the COVID-19 crisis showed, during major health disasters (MHDs), the demand for SC grows exponentially, while the burden of care and focus on preserving life o...

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Aim To explore the views of an international sample of nursing and midwifery managers concerning attributes that they associate with compassionate management. Method A cross-sectional online survey. Using a snowballing sampling method, 1217 responses were collected from nursing and midwifery managers in 17 countries. A total of complete 933 respon...

Abstract Background Spirituality is an integral part of being human, and should therefore be part of all fields of healthcare such as prevention, treatment, coping, recovery or death. During Major Health Disasters (MHDs), the demand for Spiritual Care and Support (SCS) grows exponentially, while the emergency burden of care and focus on preserving...

Spiritual support is a key element of holistic care, and better healthcare professionals training and stronger strategic guidelines become urgent in light of health disasters and emergencies, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. To this end, the aim of this study was to explore spiritual support provision within mass and social media and the websites of...

A correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-021-01274-x

Spirituality is a broad concept, revolving around the notions of connection, meaning, transcendence and values. Spirituality can encompass religion, or not, yet both appear to increase human wellbeing and health. For this, Spiritual Support is key to holistic, compassionate care (Papadopoulos, 2018), and its benefits for patients have been demonstr...

We conducted a rapid scoping review of social media and internet sources exploring how spiritual support was provided to patients during the first wave of the pandemic (March to May 2020) and in summary we found that: Covid-19 had a massive impact on how spiritual support was conceived, and enacted within the NHS hospitals in England but still rem...

This rapid exploration of available online data sought to address the following questions: To what extent has the provision of spiritual support for the COVID-19 hospitalised patients been covered by mass and social media and the websites of spiritual leaders/institutions and those of the NHS, in England, in the period between 20th March to 20th M...

Spiritual support for hospitalised COVID-19 patients during March to May 2020

Aim: To explore the views of an international sample of nursing and midwifery managers concerning attributes that they associate with compassionate management. Method: A cross-sectional online survey. Using a snowballing sampling method, 1,217 responses were collected from nursing and midwifery managers in 17 countries. A total of complete 933 resp...

Purpose – The use of violence risk assessment measures within intellectual disabilities (ID) services is now the norm and a growing target for research. The purpose of this paper is to examine the clinical utility of the historical and clinical factors of the HCR-20 in predicting violence. Design/methodology/approach – The study took place within...

This article compares the clinical characteristics, risk and need profiles of forensic and general adult patients in parallel and integrated models of care in the UK. Case notes were examined, and the Care Programme Approach care-coordinator interviewed to assess risk and need. Forensic patients had a higher risk of violence, accounted for by a hig...

Background Previous evidence has suggested that clinical characteristics may predict use of restraint in adults with intellectual disability. However, the relationship between specific types of untoward incidents, corresponding interventions (restrictive procedures) and clinical psychopathology remains unclear. Method We examined all untoward incid...

There is increasing awareness of the needs of people with learning disabilities from different ethnic communities. This paper focuses on the impact of ethnicity on the presentation of mental health problems. The main aim of the paper is to inform those planning and delivering mental health services for people with learning disabilities of the curre...

Violence has long been a matter of concern in inpatient psychiatry. While research suggests that training in physical restraint techniques can reduce the number and severity of violent incidents and assault-related injuries, the recent Cochrane Review is critical of the methodological inadequacies which characterise these studies. This paper consid...

High rates of offending and violence have been found in patients with co-morbid severe mental illness and substance misuse (dual diagnosis), although research has focused upon inner-city populations. This study compares offending and violence rates in patients with dual diagnosis (DD) and patients with psychosis only, drawing on a more demographica...

The aim of the study was to examine the content of Trust policies concerning the prevention and management of violence in acute in-patient settings in order to establish their usefulness as guidance for staff in this difficult, complex, and controversial aspect of inpatient psychiatric care. Violence is a commonly encountered problem in inpatient p...