Patients' experience of dangerous and severe personality disorder services: qualitative interview study

TY - JOUR

T1 - Patients' experience of dangerous and severe personality disorder services: qualitative interview study

AU - Sinclair, Julia

AU - Willmott, Lucy

AU - Fitzpatrick, Ray

AU - Burns, Tom

AU - Yiend, Jenny

PY - 2012/3

Y1 - 2012/3

N2 - As part of an evaluation of the Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder (DSPD) Programme, we conducted in-depth interviews with 60 participants purposely sampled across four pilot DSPD units. This report is limited to the finding with potential 'conceptual generalisability': namely the unanticipated finding of negative and hostile attitudes of participants being managed in hospital units compared with the prison system. The recent UK government policy decision to concentrate this programme in prisons may, in part, reflect the significance of these findings.

AB - As part of an evaluation of the Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder (DSPD) Programme, we conducted in-depth interviews with 60 participants purposely sampled across four pilot DSPD units. This report is limited to the finding with potential 'conceptual generalisability': namely the unanticipated finding of negative and hostile attitudes of participants being managed in hospital units compared with the prison system. The recent UK government policy decision to concentrate this programme in prisons may, in part, reflect the significance of these findings.

U2 - 10.1192/bjp.bp.111.101717

DO - 10.1192/bjp.bp.111.101717

M3 - Article

SN - 1472-1465

VL - 200

SP - 252

EP - 253

JO - British Journal of Psychiatry

JF - British Journal of Psychiatry

IS - 3

ER -