STAFF ATTITUDES TOWARD PATIENT CARE AND TREATMENT-DISPOSITION BEHAVIOR

Treatment milieus (staff attitudes) were related to treatment-disposition behavior in 4 autonomous units with comparable staff and patients. Only measures on which units showed significant differences or ratios of these measures were analyzed. Attitudes toward rules informing patients, impact of staff attitudes, and patients' characteristics, and measures of use of restraint and seclusion trial visits, and maximum hospital benefit discharges met this criterion. The main focus was on 3 related attitudes interpreted as indicating openness, frankness, and trust in interactions with others and their significant relationships to an index of trust in patients' capabilities. These attitudes appeared sufficiently important in the treatment climate to merit further exploration. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved). © 1969 American Psychological Association.