Important information
We gratefully acknowledge the NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research programme funding that enabled us to undertake this programme of research. We thank all the ward teams, ward management and clinical service directors who contributed to the development and implementation of the programme of research. Their advice and support throughout the project was invaluable. We also acknowledge the very valuable comments and guidance of our Project Steering Group and Data Monitoring and Ethics Committee and, in particular, all of our service user advisors. We would also like to thank Morven Leese and Clare Flach who were our initial statistical advisors and who have kept an interest in the project throughout. Finally, this programme of research could not have been successfully completed without the participation of both staff and service user inpatients who willingly gave their time to participate in all the studies.
Contributions of authors
This report was coauthored by eight team members. Each chapter had multiple contributors and all chapters were reviewed in draft form by all authors.
Til Wykes was the principal investigator and oversaw the whole programme implementation and led WP3.
Emese Csipke fulfilled the programme co-ordinator role throughout the projects and has substantially contributed to drafting the report.
Diana Rose led studies in WP1.
Thomas Craig led on WP4.
Paul McCrone led on WP2.
Paul Williams, Leonardo Koeser and Stephen Nash provided methodological advice.
Publication
Csipke E, Wykes T, Nash S, Williams P, Koeser L, McCrone P, et al. Changing nurses’ views of the therapeutic environment on acute inpatient wards: an RCT. BJPsych Open 2018; in press.
Data-sharing statement
All data requests should be submitted to the corresponding author for consideration. Access to available anonymised data may be granted following review.
Disclaimers
This report presents independent research funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). The views and opinions expressed by authors in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the NHS, the NIHR, CCF, NETSCC, PGfAR or the Department of Health and Social Care. If there are verbatim quotations included in this publication the views and opinions expressed by the interviewees are those of the interviewees and do not necessarily reflect those of the authors, those of the NHS, the NIHR, NETSCC, the PGfAR programme or the Department of Health and Social Care.