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  • Psychiatry
  • Bioethics
  • Healthcare Management

Background:

  • Ethical challenges are common in psychiatric practice.
  • Many German psychiatric hospitals struggle to establish clinical ethics support services (CESS).

Purpose of the Study:

  • To offer and evaluate a program supporting the implementation of CESS in German psychiatric hospitals.
  • To identify barriers and facilitators encountered during CESS implementation.

Main Methods:

  • Online implementation support provided to four psychiatric hospitals over 14 months.
  • Regular support meetings with hospital ethics committee members.
  • Qualitative content analysis of focus group transcripts and support meeting protocols.

Main Results:

  • Key barriers included lack of resources (financial, time), insufficient knowledge of ethics consultation, and difficulty distinguishing ethical from medical/legal issues.
  • Interdisciplinary ethics committees, management support, and awareness strategies were identified as facilitators.
  • The online support program was found helpful for problem-solving and identifying next steps, leading to reported improvements in CESS implementation.

Conclusions:

  • Adequate personnel and time resources are crucial for overcoming structural implementation barriers.
  • Support programs show promise for improving CESS implementation in psychiatric settings.
  • Establishing CESS is vital for addressing ethical challenges in psychiatric care.