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The environment psychiatric patients create for themselves

the varying perceptions of professional staff

St Andrew's Hospital, Spring Hill, Cliftonville, Northampton NN1 5BE

Steve Pearson, Specialist Registrar in Psychiatry

Hayter Unit, Torbay Hospital, Lawes Bridge, Newton Road, Torquay TQ2 7AA

Alastair Sutherland, Staff Nurse, Martin Donovan, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist and Geraint Lewis, Assistant Psychologist

Langdon Hospital, Dawlish, Devon EX7 0NR

AIMS AND METHODS

A pilot study was undertaken to investigate whether there was evidence that professional staffs' perception of a patient's environment were significantly altered by certain variables.

RESULTS

Gender and, to a lesser extent, age were found to be variables that significantly affect the perception of a patient's personal environment.

CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS

Psychiatrists and other mental health professionals should be aware that there may be significant differences between the way individual professionals perceive the same visual environment. Psychiatry may benefit from future links with environmental psychology research.

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