An exploration of the support provided by prison staff, education, health and social care professionals, and prisoners for prisoners with dementia

Brooke, Joanne; Jackson, Debra

doi:10.1080/14789949.2019.1638959

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“…For example, initially, the code "We Balance Safety and Security" to "We Balance Safety & Security with Empathy." Some other works have supported the idea of refining preliminary results [6,16,25].…”

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confidence: 91%

“…In these progressive prisons, prison staff appear to be the arbiters who interpret and apply family-centric practices and protocols [12][13][14][15]. However, there are significant implementation differences in how prison staff carry out and enact their roles within UK penal institutions [16]. The purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to understand how prison staff interpreted their roles during family visits and to determine why this evolution towards family-focus visiting took place.…”

Section: United Kingdom Family-oriented Prisonsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Prison Staff and Family Visits: United Kingdom Case Study

Hart-Johnson¹,

Johnson²

2020

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Recent studies have illuminated how families are affected by prison staff engagement during prison visits. Prison staff, by virtue of their positions, exercise power and authority over families during prison visits processes and potentially play a vital role in shaping inmate-family experiences. Although some interactions with prison staff may be cordial, others have been reported as stressful for visitors, especially families with children. Yet many family visitors endure stressful encounters since visits can serve as portals for bonding between inmates and their families. Over the past two decades, some prisons in the United Kingdom (UK) have invested in developing family-oriented practices and visits protocol, where prison staff oversee the visits process. This is in contrast to prison staff who tend to take on a police-officer mentality whereby policing behaviors or personal philosophies are aligned with implied suspicion, mistrust, and apprehension towards inmates and families. Given such, prison staff interpretation of their roles and engagement with families is of research interest. The purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to understand how UK prison staff interpreted their roles during family visits and determine why this evolution towards family-focus visiting took place. To answer the research inquiry, a heterogeneous sample of prison staff from private and public sector prisons and advocacy center contractors employed at two prisons in the United Kingdom were recruited to provide broad perspectives on staff roles during the process of the visit. Within these facilities, we interviewed a total of 13 (n=13) staff members. Data collection and semi-structured interviews occurred at two prison facilities and two advocacy centers. Three researchers conducted cross-case analyses and applied triangulation methods to establish a clear chain of evidence documented through step-by-step processes: audit trails; flexible and parallel data analysis during data collection, and first-and second-order coding processes. Findings from this study indicate that prison staff perceives their roles during the visiting processes as an evolution from traditional corrections-based punitive practices (i.e. policing) to a visiting program capable of accommodating three goals: low-stress family visits, inmate conformance, and reduced recidivism. This study adds to the literature on detailing how prison staff dichotomous roles were interpreted as balancing tensions between institutional controls and minimizing traumatic experiences for visiting families through prison-based interventions.

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Section: United Kingdom Family-oriented Prisonsmentioning

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Prison Staff and Family Visits: United Kingdom Case Study

Hart-Johnson¹,

Johnson²

2020

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“…With the image-text communication-based healthcare education combined with shifting of attention, the intervention plan meeting the interest of child patients was formulated to shift their attention and fear about disease, pain, and surgery, reduce their attention to pain, so that they could relax muscles and slow down the breathing frequency, which alleviated their pain sensation to some extent, and combined with the education to the child patients and their parents in the perioperative period, enhanced their confidence in fighting the disease and pain [ 17 – 19 ]. In addition, rich and interesting content, such as pictures, audios, and videos, could promote the interest of the child patients and directly improve the adverse emotions, and the child patients' trust in the medical staff could be enhanced with the positive encouragement of medical staff and their family members and effective communication.…”

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confidence: 99%

Application Effect of Combining Image‐Text Communication‐Based Healthcare Education with Shifting of Attention on Child Patients Undergoing Inguinal Hernia Repair under General Anesthesia

Chen

Liang

Wang

et al. 2022

Contrast Media & Molecular Imaging

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Objective. To analyze the application effect of image-text communication-based healthcare education combined with shifting of attention on child patients undergoing inguinal hernia repair under general anesthesia. Methods. A total of 110 child patients with inguinal hernia treated in our hospital from January 2020 to January 2022 were selected as the study subjects and divided into the control group (CG, routine intervention measures) and the research group (RG, image-text communication-based healthcare education combined with shifting of attention) according to their preoperative intervention plans, with 55 cases each. After surgery, the child patients’ psychological status, crying and shouting situation, and occurrence of complications were evaluated to compare and analyze the intervention effect of the two groups. Results. The child patients’ positive rate and anxiety incidence rate of psychological status evaluation were obviously lower in RG than in CG (P < 0.05), and the daily frequency of crying and shouting was significantly lower in RG than in CG (P < 0.05); the single time of crying and shouting was significantly shorter in RG than in CG (P < 0.05); after surgery, child patients in the two groups had different degrees of infections, subcutaneous emphysema, and scrotal edema, but the total incidence rate of these complications was obviously lower in RG than in CG (P < 0.05); after surgery, no significant between-group difference in child patients’ FLACC scores immediately after being transferred to the ward was observed (P > 0.05), and at postoperative 1 h, 3 h, and 5 h, the FLACC scores of RG were obviously lower than those of CG (P < 0.05); and according to the investigation results, the total satisfaction and number of very satisfied parents in RG were greatly higher than those in CG (P < 0.05). Conclusion. Before child patients undergoing inguinal hernia repair under general anesthesia, implementing image-text communication-based healthcare education combined with shifting of attention can effectively improve the child patients’ postoperative psychological status and crying and shouting situation and is conducive to preventing postoperative infections, pain, and other complications and promoting postoperative recovery. The combined intervention has potential utility in reducing child patients’ high-risk adverse reactions during the perioperative period and ensuring smooth operation, which is generally recognized by the child patients’ family members.

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“…14 There is recognition that health care staff in the prison need training to enable them to assess and identify early signs of dementia, and there is recognition that staff have difficulty in distinguishing between mental health, dementia, and drug-induced symptoms, thus supporting the need to provide specific training. 49 One strategy to improve staff knowledge about caring for people with dementia was to develop dementia champions. 4,38 This strategy found that an expert in dementia within the correctional health team could guide staff training, as well as development of practice guidelines, and become a resource for less experienced staff.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Brooke and Jackson 49 identified the need to develop evidence-based guidelines and policies to strengthen staff training in cognitive screening and monitoring to care for prisoners with dementia. Furthermore, experts in the field, supported by the findings of qualitative studies, have called for policies, procedures, and protocols to be developed related to training for staff caring for prisoners with dementia 18,49 . The development of policies incorporating dementia training for staff can provide frameworks to support decision-making related to dementia-centered care.…”

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Correctional nurse education and training to care for and support prisoners with dementia: a systematic review of text and opinion

Gaston

Porritt

Jordan

2021

JBI Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports

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Objective:The objective of this review was to synthesize the best available evidence on the training required for correctional nurses to care for and support prisoners with dementia.Introduction:Nurses caring for people in aged care facilities receive training related to aging and dementia; however, this has not carried across to training for the increasing aging population within correctional settings. Most research related to dementia care is focused on the aged and acute care sectors, and there is an absence of research in the correctional setting. Therefore, this systematic review was based on expert opinion and synthesizes information related to correctional nurse training for the support and care of prisoners with dementia.Inclusion criteria:Articles focusing on correctional nurses, regardless of gender, who were responsible for the health care of adult prisoners were considered for this review. The primary phenomenon of interest was the training needs and requirements for correctional nurses to support prisoners with dementia. The secondary phenomenon of interest was how the delivery of the training could be facilitated. The context of this review was the adult correctional setting. The sources of information considered for this review included text and narratives describing expert opinion, expert opinion-based guidelines, expert consensus, published discussion papers, unpublished dissertations, reports accessed from professional organization websites, and government policy documents.Methods:A three-step search strategy was employed to look for both published and unpublished articles as recommended by JBI. The search was conducted for English-only articles, and from database inception to November 2020. All included articles were assessed by two independent reviewers for methodological quality. The data were extracted and pooled. Categories were developed and assigned based on similarity of meaning, and a set of synthesized conclusions was developed after subjecting the categories to meta-synthesis.Results:Sixteen papers met the inclusion criteria and underwent critical appraisal and data extraction. Five synthesized findings were generated from 103 findings, which were aggregated into 15 categories. As expected, the rating was very low due to the nature of the included papers (ie, non-research), and the mix of unequivocal, credible, and unsupported findings.Conclusions:The review highlighted gaps in correctional nurse training related to caring for prisoners with dementia. Training for correctional nurses should incorporate information on general aging, alterations in aging, and dementia screening and management. Other findings included the need for policy and procedures related to training nurses to become dementia experts, and the development of partnerships with experts in the community to adapt training to the correctional setting.

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An exploration of the support provided by prison staff, education, health and social care professionals, and prisoners for prisoners with dementia

Cited by 12 publications

References 27 publications

Prison Staff and Family Visits: United Kingdom Case Study

Prison Staff and Family Visits: United Kingdom Case Study

Application Effect of Combining Image‐Text Communication‐Based Healthcare Education with Shifting of Attention on Child Patients Undergoing Inguinal Hernia Repair under General Anesthesia

Correctional nurse education and training to care for and support prisoners with dementia: a systematic review of text and opinion

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