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Open-door policy in urban acute wards: results and implementation experiences from a five-year staff co-created in-clinic RCT

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Open-door policy is a WHO-recommended framework to maximise safety, prevent coercion, and enhance recovery-based practices during admission to mental health wards. This talk will describe the open-door policy intervention, present results from our 1-year RCT and preliminary 5-year results from the Lovisenberg Open Acute Door Study (LOADS). LOADS is a 5-year in-clinic dual RCT study of open-door policy co-created with user representative and staff in our inner-city acute mental health wards in Oslo, Norway. By combining random allocation, effectiveness outcomes and implementation research, LOADS aims to address the need for faster development of clinically relevant knowledge in mental health. Disclosure of Interest None Declared

Source: European Psychiatry

DOI: 10.1192/j.eurpsy.2025.120

Author: N. Kunøe

Institution: University of Oslo

Language: English

Topic: Psychiatric care and mental health services

Subfield: Clinical Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $3,300