Table 1 Participant characteristics

Recruitment scheme

Mental health professionals invited for partipation

N = 35

N = 31

N = 2

Mental health professionals declined

N = 19

N = 18

N = 0

Mental health professtionals participated

N = 16

N = 13

N = 2

Participant characteristics (N = 29; 2 excluded from analysis)

Sex

 Female

N = 3

N = 4

 Male

N = 13

N = 7

Professional background

 Psychology

N = 5

N = 1

Excluded from analysis

 Psychiatry

N = 11

N = 6

 Psychiatric nursing

N = 0

N = 6

Institutional context

 Forensic-psychiatric institutions

4

1

 Psychiatric-psychological saervices

6

3