Post-incident treatment following coercive measures: a Delphi study

Post-incident treatment following coercive measures: a Delphi study

Background Coercive measures may traumatize patients and may disturb their relationship to carers. To maintain a good therapeutic relationship and to help avoid future coercion carers should address the aftermath of coercion with the patients involved. Much variation exists regarding postincident treatment and Swiss data show that only about 30% of patients receive such treatment. Thus, the stu...

Patients' experiences of coercive treatment and coercive measures in psychiatric care

Results Forced medication was reported by 48% of the committed and by 3% of the voluntarily admitted patients. Ninetyfive % of the committed patients thought it was a negative experience when it happened and 89% thought it was wrong. At discharge or after three 3 weeks of care 73% of the committed patients thought it was wrong. Nineteen patients reported mechanical restraint, all of them commit...

Coercive measures in Spanish psychiatric units (EUNOMIA-study)

Results We have collected data of 23 centers from nine sanitary regions of Spain. Total frequencies of admissions and compulsory admission rates vary remarkably across different regions. Concerning mechanical restraint there is not any legal framework for its implementation and local committees in each center rule the procedure. The main reason for their implementation was "to avoid danger for ...

Impact of coercive measures on life stories: qualitative study.

BACKGROUND How people integrate the experience of involuntary hospital admission and treatment into their life narrative has not been explored systematically. Aims To establish a typology of coercion perspectives and styles of integration into life stories. METHOD Transcripts of recorded interviews with 15 persons who had previously been involuntarily admitted to hospital were coded and analy...

Medical-ethical guidelines: Coercive measures in medicine