Today, we talked: A novel approach to overcoming barriers to sexual safety on mental health wards

Page, Sean; Davies-Abbott, Ian; Carr, Tony; O'Hara, Amber; Forsyth, Steve; Charles, Denise

doi:10.1111/jpm.12614

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“…(2016) show in their review of policies around sexuality in psychiatric settings across Europe, there is not a binary choice to be made between a strict concern with sexual safety and a permissive embracing of sexual freedoms. Any policy will necessarily involve a deliberative practice where multiple stakeholders within the institution will be involved in conversations with service users about the boundaries and possibilities for behaviors (see Page et al. (2020) for an account of the use of a co-production model for discussing sexual safety in mental health wards).…”

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Choreographies of sexual safety and liminality: Forensic mental health and the limits of recovery

Reavey

Brown

Ravenhill

et al. 2022

SSM - Mental Health

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Section: Conclusion – Principles For the Choreography Of Sexual Safetymentioning

confidence: 99%

Choreographies of sexual safety and liminality: Forensic mental health and the limits of recovery

Reavey

Brown

Ravenhill

et al. 2022

SSM - Mental Health

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Perspectives of Mental Health Nurses About Sexual Safety in Acute Inpatient Mental Health Units

Olasoji,

Taylah,

Megan

et al. 2024

Int J Mental Health Nurs

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The overall aim of this study is to explore the views of mental health nurses (MHNs) about the sexual safety of consumers receiving care in acute inpatient units. In Australia, people accessing mental health inpatient units have reported feeling unsafe while receiving care including experiences of sexual harassment and abuse from other patients. There has been no study to date that has explored the views of the MHNs providing care. An explorative descriptive qualitative study. Data were collected through semi‐structured interviews involving n = 8 MHNs working on a metropolitan acute inpatient unit recruited using purposive convenience sampling. Data were analysed using thematic analysis. The findings of this study highlighted the themes of ‘It's everyone's job to keep the patient safe’, ‘Going over expectations’, ‘Impact on patients’ and ‘Built environment’. Participants in this study believed that the sexual safety of patients in the inpatient unit is everyone's responsibility and that it was important during the admission process to ensure patients are aware of how to both seek help if needed and ensure that their actions or behaviours do not pose sexual safety concerns in others. Ensuring sexual safety in the mental health inpatient units is a complex issue that requires evidence‐based multipronged interventions involving all key stakeholders within the units.

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Today, we talked: A novel approach to overcoming barriers to sexual safety on mental health wards

Cited by 2 publications

References 13 publications

Choreographies of sexual safety and liminality: Forensic mental health and the limits of recovery

Choreographies of sexual safety and liminality: Forensic mental health and the limits of recovery

Perspectives of Mental Health Nurses About Sexual Safety in Acute Inpatient Mental Health Units

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