Payment for research participation has raised ethical concerns, especially with respect to its potential for coercion. We argue that characterising payment for research participation as coercive is misguided, because offers of benefit cannot constitute coercion. In this article we analyse the concept of coercion, refute mistaken conceptions of coercion and explain why the offer of payment for r...

Previous studies have shown that there is considerable variation in the degree to which coercion is used in mental health institutions. This variation between institutions and even between wards is seen in many countries. Many factors have been put foreword to explain this variation in the use of coercion, but we still can't explain it. If we had a better understanding of these factors, we woul...

The majority of labor transactions throughout much of history and a significant fraction of such transactions in many developing countries today are "coercive," in the sense that force or the threat of force plays a central role in convincing workers to accept employment or its terms. We propose a tractable principal-agent mode! of coercion, based on the idea that coercive activities by employe...

OBJECTIVE To determine access to and use of sexual health care services among adolescents and young adults with and without a history of sexual coercion, and to examine whether a history of sexual coercion was a barrier to using sexual health care services. DESIGN Online survey. SETTING Canada. PARTICIPANTS A total of 405 adolescents and young adults aged 16 to 21. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES...

Competence to consent to treatment has not previously been examined in a personality disorder cohort without comorbid mental disorder. We examined competence and coercion in 174 individuals diagnosed with severe personality disorder using two validated tools (the MacArthur Competence Assessment Tool for Treatment and the MacArthur Coercion Assessment Scale - Short Form). Competence was not cate...