Attachment 1:
Research Literature on Staffing in Acute Psychiatric Facilities & Units
Studies on staffing ratios generally improving psychiatric or behavioral health patient
outcomes or care
Han, Kyu-Tae, Sun Jung Kim, Sung-In Jang, Myung-Il Hahm, Seung Ju Kim, Seo Yoon Lee,
and Eun-Cheol Park. 2015. “The Outcomes of Psychiatric Inpatients by Proportion of Experienced Psychiatrists and Nurse Staffing in Hospital: New Findings on Improving the Quality of Mental Health Care in South Korea.” Psychiatry Research. 229(3): 880-86.
Park, Suin, Shoee Park, Young Joo Lee, Choon-Seon Park, Young-Chul Jung, and Sunah Kim
(2020). “Nurse Staffing and Health Outcomes of Psychiatric Inpatients: A Secondary Analysis of National Health Insurance Claims Data.” Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing. 50(3): 333-48..
Studies on staffing ratios in psychiatric units or psychiatric facilities improving patient
outcomes or care
Bowers, Len and Martin Crowder (2012). “Nursing Staff Numbers and their Relationship to Conflict and Containment Rates of Psychiatric Wards – A Cross Sectional Time Series Poisson Regression Study.” International Journal of Nursing Studies. 49(1): 15-20..
Butler, Michelle, Timothy Schultz, Phil Halligan, Ann Sheridan, Leigh Kinsman, Thomas Rotter,
Jonathan Beaumier, Robyn Gail Kelly, and Jonathan Drennan (2019). “Hospital Nurse-Staffing Models and Patients- and Staff-Related Outcomes.” Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews..
Cleary, Michelle (2012). “Nurse-Patient Interaction in Acute Adult Inpatient Mental Health Units: A Review and Synthesis of Qualitative Studies.” Issues in Mental Health Nursing. 33(2).
Coleman, James C., and Gordon L. Paul (2001). “Relationship Between Staffing Ratios and Effectiveness of Inpatient Psychiatric Units.” Psychiatric Services. 52(10).
Cutler, Natalie Ann, Jenny Sim, Elizabeth Halcomb, Lorna Moxham, and Moira Stephens
(2020). “Nurses’ Influence on Consumers’ Experience of Safety in Acute Mental Health Units: A Qualitative Study.” Journal of Clinical Nursing. 29(21-22): 4379-86..
Desmet, Karel, Piet Bracke, Eddy Deproost, Peter Goossens, Joeri Vandewalle, Lieke Vercuysse,
Dimitri Beeckman, Ann Van Hecke, Lise-Marie Kinnaer, Sofie Verhaeghe (2023). “Patient Reported Outcomes of the Nurse-Patient Relationship in Psychiatric Inpatient Hospitals: A Multicentered Descriptive Cross-Sectional Study.” Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing.
30(3): 568-79..
Feyman, Yevgeniy, Stuart M. Figueroa, Yingzhe Yuan, Megan E. Price, Aigerim
Kabdiyeva, Jonathan R. Nebeker, Merry C. Ward, Paul R. Shafer, Steven D. Pizer, Kiersten L.
Strombotne (2022). “Effect of Mental Health Staffing Inputs on Suicide-Related Events. Health Services Research.” 58(2): 375-82.
Gehri, Beatrice, Dietmar Ausserhofer, Franziska Zuniga, Stefanie Backnick, Rene
Schwendimann, and Michael Simon. 2023. “Nursing Care Left Undone in Psychiatric Hospitals and Its Association with Nurse Staffing: A Cross-Sectional Multi-Centre Study in Switzerland.”
Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing. 31(2): 215-27.
Hanrahan, Nancy P., Aparna Kumar, and Linda H. Aiken (2010). “Adverse Events Associated with Organizational factors of General Hospital Inpatient Psychiatric Care Environments.”
Psychiatric Services. 61(6).
Okumura, Yasuyuki, Nayoa Sugiyama, Toshie Noda, and Nobuo Sakata (2018). “Association of High Psychiatrist Staffing with Prolonged Hospitalization, Follow-Up Visits, and Readmission in Acute Psychiatric Units: A Retrospective Cohort Study Using a Nationwide Claims Database.”
Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment. Pages: 893-902.
Staggs, Vincent (2012). “Nurse Staffing, RN Mix, and Assault Rates on Psychiatric Units.”
Research in Nursing & Health. (36)1: 26-37.
Wang, Limin, Han Lu, Xu Dong, Xiuxiu Huang, Bei Li, Qiaoqin Wan, Shaomei Shang (2020).
“The Effect of Nurse Staffing on Patient-Safety Outcomes: A Cross Sectional Survey.” Journal of
Nursing Management. 28(7).
Yurtbasi, Miriam K, Glenn Melvin, Christine Pavlou, and Michael Gordon (2021). “Nurse and Patient Factors: Predicting Seclusion in Adolescent Psychiatric Units.” Journal of Child and
Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing. 34(2): 112-19.