Impact of mental health boarding on clinicians at a children's hospital: A qualitative analysis

The child and adolescent mental health boarding crisis (i.e., prolonged stays in acute care hospitals for patients awaiting mental health treatment) continues to challenge acute care hospital staff and resources. We sought to understand clinician's experiences while caring for patients experien...

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Published inJournal of hospital medicine Vol. 19; no. 3; pp. 193 - 199
Main Authors Worsley, Diana, Bowden, Cadence, Keating, Cameron, Cassidy, Kyla, Doupnik, Stephanie K
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LanguageEnglish
Published United States Frontline Medical Communications 01.03.2024
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Mental health
Pediatrics
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Abstract The child and adolescent mental health boarding crisis (i.e., prolonged stays in acute care hospitals for patients awaiting mental health treatment) continues to challenge acute care hospital staff and resources. We sought to understand clinician's experiences while caring for patients experiencing mental health boarding. We conducted semistructured qualitative interviews with clinicians who care for patients experiencing mental health boarding in an acute care freestanding children's hospital with no inpatient psychiatric unit. We used an inductive approach to determine interview themes and major findings. The study included 48 clinician participants from diverse specialties, including 13 social workers, 11 nurses, five psychiatric technicians, six pediatric residents, four attending pediatric hospitalists, four attending psychiatrists, one psychologist, and four other mental health specialists. We identified emergent themes in five domains: (1) frustrations with the mental healthcare system, (2) lack of training in mental healthcare skills, (3) feelings of helplessness, (4) ineffectiveness of medical model of care during mental health boarding, and (5) resilience and support factors. Caring for patients with mental health boarding has negative effects on clinicians, and health system efforts to prevent boarding could improve workforce retention and reduce burnout.
AbstractList BackgroundThe child and adolescent mental health boarding crisis (i.e., prolonged stays in acute care hospitals for patients awaiting mental health treatment) continues to challenge acute care hospital staff and resources. We sought to understand clinician's experiences while caring for patients experiencing mental health boarding.MethodsWe conducted semistructured qualitative interviews with clinicians who care for patients experiencing mental health boarding in an acute care freestanding children's hospital with no inpatient psychiatric unit. We used an inductive approach to determine interview themes and major findings.ResultsThe study included 48 clinician participants from diverse specialties, including 13 social workers, 11 nurses, five psychiatric technicians, six pediatric residents, four attending pediatric hospitalists, four attending psychiatrists, one psychologist, and four other mental health specialists. We identified emergent themes in five domains: (1) frustrations with the mental healthcare system, (2) lack of training in mental healthcare skills, (3) feelings of helplessness, (4) ineffectiveness of medical model of care during mental health boarding, and (5) resilience and support factors.ConclusionsCaring for patients with mental health boarding has negative effects on clinicians, and health system efforts to prevent boarding could improve workforce retention and reduce burnout.
Abstract Background The child and adolescent mental health boarding crisis (i.e., prolonged stays in acute care hospitals for patients awaiting mental health treatment) continues to challenge acute care hospital staff and resources. We sought to understand clinician's experiences while caring for patients experiencing mental health boarding. Methods We conducted semistructured qualitative interviews with clinicians who care for patients experiencing mental health boarding in an acute care freestanding children's hospital with no inpatient psychiatric unit. We used an inductive approach to determine interview themes and major findings. Results The study included 48 clinician participants from diverse specialties, including 13 social workers, 11 nurses, five psychiatric technicians, six pediatric residents, four attending pediatric hospitalists, four attending psychiatrists, one psychologist, and four other mental health specialists. We identified emergent themes in five domains: (1) frustrations with the mental healthcare system, (2) lack of training in mental healthcare skills, (3) feelings of helplessness, (4) ineffectiveness of medical model of care during mental health boarding, and (5) resilience and support factors. Conclusions Caring for patients with mental health boarding has negative effects on clinicians, and health system efforts to prevent boarding could improve workforce retention and reduce burnout.
The child and adolescent mental health boarding crisis (i.e., prolonged stays in acute care hospitals for patients awaiting mental health treatment) continues to challenge acute care hospital staff and resources. We sought to understand clinician's experiences while caring for patients experiencing mental health boarding. We conducted semistructured qualitative interviews with clinicians who care for patients experiencing mental health boarding in an acute care freestanding children's hospital with no inpatient psychiatric unit. We used an inductive approach to determine interview themes and major findings. The study included 48 clinician participants from diverse specialties, including 13 social workers, 11 nurses, five psychiatric technicians, six pediatric residents, four attending pediatric hospitalists, four attending psychiatrists, one psychologist, and four other mental health specialists. We identified emergent themes in five domains: (1) frustrations with the mental healthcare system, (2) lack of training in mental healthcare skills, (3) feelings of helplessness, (4) ineffectiveness of medical model of care during mental health boarding, and (5) resilience and support factors. Caring for patients with mental health boarding has negative effects on clinicians, and health system efforts to prevent boarding could improve workforce retention and reduce burnout.
The child and adolescent mental health boarding crisis (i.e., prolonged stays in acute care hospitals for patients awaiting mental health treatment) continues to challenge acute care hospital staff and resources. We sought to understand clinician's experiences while caring for patients experiencing mental health boarding.BACKGROUNDThe child and adolescent mental health boarding crisis (i.e., prolonged stays in acute care hospitals for patients awaiting mental health treatment) continues to challenge acute care hospital staff and resources. We sought to understand clinician's experiences while caring for patients experiencing mental health boarding.We conducted semistructured qualitative interviews with clinicians who care for patients experiencing mental health boarding in an acute care freestanding children's hospital with no inpatient psychiatric unit. We used an inductive approach to determine interview themes and major findings.METHODSWe conducted semistructured qualitative interviews with clinicians who care for patients experiencing mental health boarding in an acute care freestanding children's hospital with no inpatient psychiatric unit. We used an inductive approach to determine interview themes and major findings.The study included 48 clinician participants from diverse specialties, including 13 social workers, 11 nurses, five psychiatric technicians, six pediatric residents, four attending pediatric hospitalists, four attending psychiatrists, one psychologist, and four other mental health specialists. We identified emergent themes in five domains: (1) frustrations with the mental healthcare system, (2) lack of training in mental healthcare skills, (3) feelings of helplessness, (4) ineffectiveness of medical model of care during mental health boarding, and (5) resilience and support factors.RESULTSThe study included 48 clinician participants from diverse specialties, including 13 social workers, 11 nurses, five psychiatric technicians, six pediatric residents, four attending pediatric hospitalists, four attending psychiatrists, one psychologist, and four other mental health specialists. We identified emergent themes in five domains: (1) frustrations with the mental healthcare system, (2) lack of training in mental healthcare skills, (3) feelings of helplessness, (4) ineffectiveness of medical model of care during mental health boarding, and (5) resilience and support factors.Caring for patients with mental health boarding has negative effects on clinicians, and health system efforts to prevent boarding could improve workforce retention and reduce burnout.CONCLUSIONSCaring for patients with mental health boarding has negative effects on clinicians, and health system efforts to prevent boarding could improve workforce retention and reduce burnout.
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Keating, Cameron
Worsley, Diana
Doupnik, Stephanie K
Cassidy, Kyla
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