Identification Of The Mental Health Patient As A Culturally Unique Population in The Post-Anaesthesia Care Unit by Tomes, Montei, and Woten (2013) deals with issues that affect mental health patients and how such issues can be addressed for the benefits of the patient. The background of the research details the unique nature of mental patients in that such patients have different psychological, physiological, and educational needs.
The background also describes Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) as one of the effective treatment approaches when it comes to the treatment of patients suffering from depression and other psychiatric disorders (Tomes, Montei & Woten, 2013). Finally, the background outlines one of the unique features of ECT treatment, and that is the need for anesthesia during treatment.
The hypothesis of the research was, “Introducing the ECT procedure to an adult Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) that had previously not cared for large groups of mental health patients can cause undue stress on the staff and possibly affect the client’s safety and perception of their own procedural experience” (Tomes, Montei & Woten, 2013). In carrying out the research, the researcher applied the use of inferential statistics in describing the data.
The data used was the staff and clients, and it was representative. This implies that it was meant to represent a larger grouping or population. This research applied the use of sample data with the aim of analyzing and studying the impact of introducing the ECT procedure to an adult PACU for the staff and clients (Broyles, 2006). The findings could then be extended to a similar setting, and the results should be the same.
The p-value is the likelihood that had the results been purely random; the same results could have been obtained (Koch, 2008). The test that was carried out by the research involved various procedures aimed at analyzing the physiological and psychological needs of patients including identification of unique patient needs as a way of establishing the most appropriate treatment that can be administered.
In addition to that, tests also analyzed the emotional needs of the staff caring for the mentally ill patients with an objective of determining the extent to which the emotional well being of staff affects their work and treatment of the patients. In this experiment, the p-value is significantly high because the nature of the research test is significant, and the results obtained are not just random numbers. On the contrary, they do have some relevance and meaning concerning the hypothesis of the research.
The results obtained also serve to underscore the significance of the p-value because these results can be directly correlated to the research hypothesis. According to the hypothesis, the research seeks to establish the impact of introducing ECT procedure to an adult PACU that had no prior experience in handling such a group on both the staff and patients (Tomes, Montei & Woten, 2013). The results indicate that there is indeed a significant impact on both the patient and staff.
According to the results, some of these impacts can be observed in the treatment processes and procedures. The results indicate that some gaps were recorded in the processes and treatment procedures, which needed to be standardized. In addition to that, the results also indicate that some of the changes made such as attending to the emotional needs of the staff went a long way in improving the perception and reception of ECT among the patients (Tomes, Montei & Woten, 2013).
References
Broyles, R. W. (2006). Fundamentals of Statistics in Health Administration. New York: Jones & Bartlett.
Koch, G. (2008). Basic Allied Health Statistics and Analysis. New York: Cengage Learning.
Tomes, C., Montei, V., & Woten, D. (2013). Identification of the Mental Health Patient as a Culturally Unique Population in the Post-Anesthesia Care Unit. Web.