Boundary Violation Incident Reports from Three English High Secure Hospitals

England is the geographic scope of this dataset. It contains anonymized incident reports for 13 boundary violation incidents between staff and patients at three high secure hospitals. The data was analyzed thematically by author Phil Willmot and last updated on figshare in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Identify risk factors for professional boundary violations based on staff, patient, and organizational themes mentioned in the description.
• Analyze patterns in patient histories, such as personality disorder diagnoses and prior abuse, in relation to boundary incidents.
• Study systemic contributing factors to boundary violations in high-secure institutional settings.
• Develop prevention frameworks based on identified warning signs and thematic groupings.

Strengths

• Contains 13 detailed incident reports from three distinct institutions.
• Data is anonymized and shared under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
• Thematic analysis provides a structured qualitative framework for the incidents.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is very small at 50.7 KB, indicating limited scope.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Phil Willmot.

Collection Method

Thematic analysis of collected incident reports.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-28 15:35:57; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England