Clinician Perspectives on Patient-Oriented Research in Forensic Mental Health Settings

A qualitative descriptive study analyzes interview data from 25 clinicians, clinical leaders, and senior hospital leaders about patient-oriented research practices in forensic mental health care. The data was collected via semi-structured interviews and analyzed using inductive thematic analysis to identify themes of optimism, ambivalence, and opportunities. The dataset, authored by Christopher Canning and last updated in May 2026, is shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyzing clinician attitudes toward patient inclusion in research based on interview themes.
• Studying structural and organizational barriers to participatory research in secure healthcare settings.
• Investigating concerns about power inequities and tokenism in forensic patient-oriented research.
• Comparing staff perspectives on emerging research approaches with literature from Critical Disability and Mad Studies.

Strengths

• Includes perspectives from 25 distinct clinical and leadership roles.
• Data is derived from semi-structured interviews, suggesting depth of qualitative insight.
• The study explicitly identifies three attitudinal domains (optimism, ambivalence, opportunities) from its analysis.

Limitations

• The dataset is a single 670.1 KB DOCX file, indicating a limited textual scope.
• Row count and column-level documentation are unknown, complicating suitability assessment.
• The description does not specify the geographic or institutional origin of the participants.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Semi-structured interviews analyzed via inductive thematic analysis.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 06:48:53