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Mental health
Differences between nurses’ and patients’ perceptions regarding therapeutic relationships exist but are not fully understood
  1. Rob Allison
  1. Health Sciences, University of York, York, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Rob Allison; rob.allison{at}york.ac.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebnurs-2023-103897

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    Commentary on: El-Abidi K, Moreno-Poyato AR, Cañabate-Ros M, et al. The therapeutic relationship from the perspective of patients and nurses in the first days of admission: a cross-sectional study in acute mental health units. Int J Ment Health Nurs. 2023 Sep 24. doi: 10.1111/inm.13227. Epub ahead of print.

    Implications for practice and research

    • Nurses rate the quality of therapeutic nurse–patient relationships significantly higher than patients do.

    • Numerous factors potentially contribute to these different perceptions, but further research is needed to develop a more nuanced understanding, particularly concerning differences between inpatient and community-based relationships.

    Context

    Therapeutic relationships are central to effective person-centred care, especially to the process of understanding and supporting patients’ health-related needs, and they are the focus of this study by El-Abidi et al.1 Evidence from the authors’ previous research suggests it is especially important to …

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    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.