Objective To examine whether the pandemic in 2020 caused changes in psychiatric hospital
cases, the percentage of patients exposed to coercive interventions, and aggressive …

Background The CoVID pandemic and the associated lockdown had a significant impact on
mental health services. Inpatient services faced the challenge of offering acute psychiatric …

Background Interventions to prevent the use of coercion in psychiatric hospitals have been
summarized in the 2018 German Association for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and …

Accessible Summary What is known about the subject? In a survey conducted by the World
Health Organization (WHO) in the summer of 2020, 93% of countries worldwide …

The impact of COVID-19 on urgent and involuntary inpatient admissions, as well as coercive
measures, has not been assessed so far. A retrospective study was performed analyzing …

Abstract Background On 23 July 2018, the German Constitutional Court decided that
mechanical restraint in psychiatric patients lasting longer than 30 minutes requires a judge's …

Objectives: Restrictive interventions (seclusion, restraint and special observations) are used
on psychiatric wards when there are no other means available to keep a patient or others …

Background Most studies agree that the Covid-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdown
had a negative impact on mental health. On the other hand, international studies have …

Background During the first phase of the Coronavirus-19 disorder (COVID-19) pandemic in
the spring of 2020, utilization of inpatient mental healthcare was significantly reduced. We …

Aim To assess the structural performance of psychiatric hospitals in Germany during the
COVID (coronavirus disease)-19 pandemic, a nationwide survey was launched in March …