An interventional study of eDASA+APP FI in Violence, sponsored by University of Turku. Active, not recruiting at 1 site in Finland. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-04-06.
Sponsored by University of Turku · Not applicable, Interventional, and Screening
The main goal of this study is to evaluate if the Finnish version of eDASA+APP (electronic Dynamic Appraisal of Situational Aggression + Aggression Prevention Protocol), a clinical decision support system (CDSS), has an impact on reducing workplace violence, use of coercive measures and increasing nurses' job satisfaction in adult psychiatric inpatient care.
The study includes three phases: 1) exploring attitudes of nurses and nurse managers towards validated tools, violence risk assessment and management, 2) a pre-implementation including a co-design process of the eDASA+APP to ensure optimal integration and adaptation to local context and integration into the local EPIC based EHR system together with relevant stakeholders (health care staff and expert-by-experience), and 3) a quasi-experimental implementation study to evaluate the impact of the intervention (eDASA+APP FI).
University of Turku is the lead sponsor of 122 studies on the registry; 16 are open to participants now.
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Exclusion Criteria:
Nurses in the study wards are using a CDSS 'eDASA+APP FI' in their daily clinical work to aid their short-term violence risk assessment and management, together with a patient if possible, to identify patients at elevated risk for violence in the coming 24 hours and to decrease (or maintain low) the risk with evidence-based, non-invasive nursing interventions.
Behavioral: eDASA+APP FI
A CDSS for nurses to assist in their daily short-term violence risk assessment and management, is integrated into an EPIC-based EHR system.
Workplace violence
Violence experienced by healthcare staff in the wards, routinely collected data
Time frame: Pre-post (3 months)
Coercive measures
Routinely monitored and collected by the wards according to the Finnish Mental Health Act
Time frame: Pre-post (3 months)
Job satisfaction
Nurses yearly job satisfaction survey will be used (Nurse Engagement Survey (NESplus))
Time frame: Pre-post (3 months)
Plan to share: No
This study is active, not recruiting, as verified in Apr 2025. You cannot join it, but the record below documents what was studied.
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