Attitudes to seclusion in Virginia

ORI GIN AL PA PER Professionals’ Attitudes After a Seclusion Reduction Program: Anything Changed?

Changing professionals’ attitudes toward seclusion is seen as an important condition to reduce its use. The purpose of this study was to determine whether professionals from a mental health institute in the Netherlands changed in their attitudes toward seclusion after implementation of a multifaceted seclusion reduction program. Professionals working on four acute admission wards filled in the ...

Tailoring seclusion policies to the patient group.

We welcome the review by Gaskin et al 1 of interventions to reduce use of seclusion. Although studies reviewed were conducted in adult and child settings, the authors did not differentiate the developmental needs between these patient populations. The determinants of emotional distress and aggression may differ between children and adults. In adult psychiatric units, aggression is frequently as...

The need to develop alternative measures to seclusion and restraint

In studies of psychiatric inpatients, the incidence of seclusion or restraint (S/R) varies widely (0-66%). Frequent use has been associated with e.g. violent behavior, age, sex, psychiatric symptoms and diagnosis of the patient, but also with the ward culture. The use of S/R is problematic since no randomized controlled studies of the safety or effectiveness of them were published. S/R may save...

Seclusion: a literature review

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