Background: Determining the clinical effects of coercion is a difficult challenge, raising
ethical, legal, and methodological questions. Despite limited scientific evidence on …

Background Seclusion and restraint are interventions used in the treatment and
management of disruptive and violent behaviours in psychiatry. The use of seclusion varies …

Compulsory admission to psychiatric inpatient treatment can be experienced as
disempowering and stigmatizing by people with serious mental illness. However …

Objectives Patients in inpatient mental health settings face similar risks (eg, medication
errors) to those in other areas of healthcare. In addition, some unsafe behaviours associated …

Objective Randomised controlled trials (RCT) are the gold standard to provide unbiased
data. However, when patients have a treatment preference, randomisation may influence …

Objective Patients who participated in a randomized controlled trial comparing subjective
distress and traumatic impact after seclusion or mechanical restraint were interviewed about …

Although coercive measures have always been part of the psychiatric armamentarium, the
ethical dilemma between the use of a “therapeutic” coercion and the loss of patients' dignity …

Coercive interventions for psychiatric patients are controversial. Research on different
preventive measures has increased over the last years. The present study examined …

Background There is a lack of evidence to underpin decisions on what constitutes the most
effective and least restrictive form of coercive intervention when responding to violent …

Background Physical restraint in psychiatric units is a common practice but extremely
controversial and poorly evaluated by methodologically appropriate investigations. The …