Research project
Title: Wounded Healers
Project timescale: From 01 April, 1997
(Added to website on: 10 May, 2001 - Date last updated: 11 February, 2013)
Source of funding:
None-but RCN gave practical help.
Aims: Can nurses with mental illness act as "expert patients" - to improve mental health services? This project is now continuing in stages with different groups of participants.
Research designs used:
Study of views/experiences
Other: survey: questionnaires and interviews
Methods used to collect data:
Documentary analysis
Interviews
Questionnaire survey
Observation
Other (please specify):
Research project description: 229 nurses with a history of depression provided information about the antecedents, context, onset, outcomes and career consequences of their illness. This project is now continuing in stages with different groups of participants.
Stages at which the public were involved:
Undertaking the research
Analysing the research
Prioritising topic areas
Planning the research
Managing the research
Designing the research instruments
(eg questionnaires, patient information sheets)
Other:
Description of public involvement in research stages: This arose out of consumer concerns.
Training and support provided for either members of the public or researchers involved in the project:
Examples of ways the public have made a difference to the research project: Without the ideas and support of "wounded healers" at every stage, there would have been no project.
Evaluating the impact of public involvement in the research:
Details of publications or reports resulting from the research: Caan W, Morris L, SantaMaria C, Brandon D, (2001) "Wounded Healers" Nursing Standard 27(15): 22-23. Caan W, Morris L, Brandon D, Richards S, Khoo R, SantaMaria, C (2001) "Wounded Healers Speak Out: Experiences of Nurses with Depression" Mental Health Practice 4(5): 20-26. The next paper, on Social Workers with experience of depression, will be published in the Journal of Public Mental Health by Caan et al, in December 2006.
Links to Reports:
Was/is your project user controlled: Not Known
For further information on the project, please contact:
Dr Woody Caan
Project leader
Anglia Ruskin University
IHSC
Chelmsford
CM1 1SQ
a.w.caan@anglia.ac.uk
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