Background Internationally, concerns over the use of seclusion and restraint in psychiatric care have increased over the past decades. In Finland, restriction of freedom and use of coercion in psychiatry are regulated by the Mental Health Act of 1991. After its implementation, the Act (revision 2002) has become more restrictive and specified in relation to using coercion. Objective: This study ...

Methods The evaluation was conducted in Ashworth Hospital, UK. For the purposes of this paper the following strategies were identified post-hoc and analyzed as the independent variables namely, progressively lowering the threshold for a multi-disciplinary group review, providing targeted staff training dependent on patient needs and increasing the clinical staff-patient ratio. A multiple regres...

We examine privacy-enhancing technologies based on the consistency of the business plans, technology, stated objectives, and the concept of privacy as embedded in the technologies. Three distinct trust models result from the three distinct concepts of privacy: a right of autonomy, a right to seclusion and a right to property. We use these trust models to segment the privacy market and classify ...

objective: to examine association between maternal socio-cultural status, as indicated by maternal income, education and polygamy with severity of pre–eclampsia. materials and methods: this study was carried out in primary health centers in katsina, adamawa and borno states. a total of two groups of subjects were selected for the study, with 50 subjects in each group. group a - pregnant non hyp...