Evaluating a visual communications tool to explore risk and safety with nurses and patients within an intellectual disability forensic service: A pilot study

Sam Quinn; Sarah J. Rhynas; Susan Gowland; Lois Cameron; Nicola Braid; Aisha Holloway; Siobhan O'Connor

doi:10.3109/13668250.2022.2106697

Evaluating a visual communications tool to explore risk and safety with nurses and patients within an intellectual disability forensic service: A pilot study

Sam Quinn, Sarah J. Rhynas, Susan Gowland, Lois Cameron, Nicola Braid, Aisha Holloway, Siobhan O'Connor^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Background:
Issues of risk and safety can be challenging to discuss with forensic patients with an intellectual disability. Talking Mats is a visual communication tool that facilitates therapeutic conversations.

Method:
A pilot study, adopting an ethnographic approach, was used to evaluate Talking Mats. Interviews and video observations were conducted with nurses and forensic patients with an intellectual disability from two forensic wards in Scotland.

Results:
Exploratory evidence suggests that Talking Mats offers a non-biased platform to discuss potentially emotive issues around risk, safety, and wellbeing. Pre-existing notions of Talking Mats, staff availability, and the context of COVID-19 acted as barriers to adopting the visual communications tool.

Conclusion:
There is value in further research regarding communication tools to facilitate input on care planning and risk management for patients with an intellectual disability.

Original language	English
Number of pages	36
Journal	Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability
Early online date	24 Aug 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3109/13668250.2022.2106697
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 24 Aug 2022

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communication
intellectual disability
forensic
risk
safety
nursing

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This is an Accepted Manuscript version of the following article, accepted for publication in Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability. Sam Quinn, Sarah J. Rhynas, Susan Gowland, Lois Cameron, Nicola Braid, Aisha Holloway & Siobhan O’Connor (2022) Evaluating a visual communications tool to explore risk and safety with nurses and patients within an intellectual disability forensic service: A pilot study, Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, DOI: 10.3109/13668250.2022.2106697. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Quinn, S., Rhynas, S. J., Gowland, S., Cameron, L., Braid, N., Holloway, A., & O'Connor, S. (2022). Evaluating a visual communications tool to explore risk and safety with nurses and patients within an intellectual disability forensic service: A pilot study. Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.3109/13668250.2022.2106697

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