Issues Related to Patient Participation in Psychiatric Hospital Care-An Integrative Literature Review of Patient...

Explore how previous patient safety research has described issues related to patient participation in psychiatric hospital care.

Integrated literature review.

The literature review was conducted according to Cooper's framework with the following five-step protocol: problem identification, a literature search, data evaluation, data analysis, and the presentation of results.

CINAHL, PubMed, PsycINFO, Scopus databases, years 2005-2023. After quality appraisal, a total of 62 articles were reviewed.

Three main categories related to patient participation in psychiatric hospital care were identified: communication (having information, being heard, therapeutic relationships and interaction quality), decision-making (treatment planning, treatment decisions, activities and working on behalf of patients) and restrictive measures (setting limits, exercising power, balancing patient autonomy and safety).

Psychiatric hospital care nursing staff continuously balance patients' autonomy, self-determination, and safety, taking into account their well-being and issues of responsibility. Wider use of positive risk-taking is needed to increase patient participation and safety in psychiatric hospital care.

Nursing staff should create favourable facilities for patient participation, foster an atmosphere of trust, respect, and encouragement, provide patients individual time to improve patient safety and recognise that they can exert power over patients due to constantly balancing patient autonomy and safety.

PRISMA guidelines.

No patient or public contribution.