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

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 …

Objective To investigate whether implementation recommendations derived from the
German guidelines" Prevention of coercion" can be implemented on acute psychiatric wards …

BackgroundCoercive treatment comprises a broad range of practices, ranging from implicit
or explicit pressure to accept certain treatment to the use of forced practices such as …

Background Epidemiological studies have demonstrated considerable differences in the use
of coercive measures among psychiatric hospitals; however, the underlying reasons for …

Abstract Objective Psychiatric legislation in Denmark implies a principle of using the least
intrusive types of coercion first. The intrusiveness is not universally agreed upon. We …

Methods The main objective of the European Evaluation of Coercion in Psychiatry and
Harmonization of Best Clinical Practice (EUNOMIA) project was to analyze national …

Accessible Summary What is known on the subject? Coercive practices such as restraint
(physically holding a person) or seclusion (containing a person in locked room) are …

In this review, we compare the use of coercion in mental health care in Germany and in the
Netherlands. Legal frameworks and published data on involuntary commitment, involuntary …

Introduction Even if coercive measures are widely applied in psychiatry and have numerous
well-known drawbacks, there is limited known on the agreement among mental healthcare …