Implementation manual
Reducing trauma among psychiatric workers
PROJECT OVERVIEW
Through the Trauma Reduction Implementation Study (TRIS), our team developed a step-by-step guide to support psychiatric healthcare organizations in reducing staff exposure to workplace violence and related trauma. The implementation manual and accompanying workbook (linked below) explore how to assess, implement, and evaluate trauma-prevention strategies in mental health care.
This manual and workbook aim to provide step-by-step instructions for hospital clinical leaders and administrators on how to reduce occupational exposures to workplace violence, reduce the incidence of serious injury, and prevent and mitigate related psychological trauma.
Building on the 12 recommendations for psychiatric hospitals detailed by Hilton et al. (2020), this manual is based on evidence accumulated from literature reviews, multi-site surveys, healthcare worker interviews, focus groups, and multi-stakeholder planning events. This work has been supported in part by WorkSafeBC.
The manual and workbook include two key components:
1. What to implement: Exploring the priority recommendations that were selected through a quantitative national survey, identifying implementation gaps where improvements would be most beneficial; and
2. How to implement: Illustrating steps for addressing potential barriers and utilizing facilitators, informed by focus group feedback from clinical managers and hospital and union representatives.
This Work is In Progress!
This is a draft manual and workbook with sample pages only
Stay tuned for the final Implementation Manual and Workbook.
Our Quality Improvement Survey below is based on the Theoretical Framework of Acceptability model of healthcare interventions (Sekhon et al., 2017, 2022), which assesses perceived effectiveness, burden, self-efficacy, and more.
The survey is now closed.