Talk, understand, listen for inpatient settings (TULIPS) reflections

Talk, understand, listen for inpatient settings (TULIPS) is a NIHR funded cluster randomised controlled trial aiming to increase access to psychological therapy on mental health inpatient wards. The project involved three work packages. In work package one, previous research was reviewed, updated (through interviews with patients, carers/relatives and staff working on mental health words) and synthesised to inform the co-creation of an adapted therapeutic model that aimed to improve access to therapy in inpatient settings. In work package two the intervention was tested for effectiveness on 32 NHS acute mental health wards in England and Wales within a cluster randomised controlled trial with internal pilot. Work package three included a nested qualitative process evaluation, aiming to explore the mechanisms by which the intervention worked, barriers and facilitators to engagement and implementation, and to explore outcomes in more breadth. This included qualitative interviews with staff and patients from intervention ward and ethnographic observations on six intervention wards across three time points pre-, during, and post-intervention.

The data presented within this repository includes anonymised reflective notes taken by researchers conducting qualitative interviews and observations within Work packages one and three within the TULIPS project.