Enabling people, not completing tasks: patient perspectives on relationships and staff morale in mental health wards in England

Table 1 Participant characteristics

	Participants from wards with high staff morale^a (n = 12)	Participants from wards with low staff morale^a (n = 9)
Gender	50 % (6/12) male; 50 % (6/12) female	89 % (8/9) male; 11 % (1/9) female
Age	25 % (3/12) 16–17 years	22 % (2/9) 18–25 years
	8 % (1/12) 18–25 years	33 % (3/9) 26–35 years
	25 % (3/12) 26–35 years	11 % (1/9) 36–45 years
	16 % (2/12) 36–45 years	33 % (3/9) 46–55 years
	8 % (1/12) 46–55 years
	16 % (2/12) 56–65 years
Ethnicity	50 % (6/12) British or White British	33 % (3/9) British or White British
	17 % (2/12) White & Black Caribbean	22 % (2/9) Black African
	8 % (1/12) Indian	11 % (1/9) Caribbean
	8 % (1/12) White other	11 % (1/9) Black other
	8 % (1/12) Black other	11 % (1/9) Asian
	8 % (1/12) Mixed ethnicity	11 % (1/9) Mixed ethnicity
Ward type	25 % (3/12) Female acute ward	33 % (3/9) Male psychiatric intensive care unit
	25 % (3/12) Mixed gender recovery unit	33 % (3/9) Male acute ward
	25 % (3/12) Mixed gender child and adolescent unit	33 % (3/9) Mixed gender acute ward
	25 % (3/12) Male rehabilitation unit

^aWards were deemed to have ‘high’ or ‘low’ staff morale if they were in the top quartile or bottom quartile respectively for average staff morale scores in a survey of 100 inpatient mental health wards across England [13]

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