This article discusses initiatives aimed at preventing and reducing 'coercive practices' in
mental health and community settings worldwide, including in hospitals in high‐income …

There is ongoing debate in the UK as to the place of coercion and compulsion in community
mental health care. Recent changes in service provision and amendments to the Mental …

Background Physical restraint is a coercive intervention used to prevent individuals from
harming themselves or others. However, serious adverse effects have been reported …

Background In mental health services what is commonplace across international frontiers is
that to prevent aggressive patients from harming themselves, other patients or staff, coercive …

Purpose This study aims to identify whether selected patient and ward-related factors are
associated with the use of coercive measures. Data were collected as part of the EUNOMIA …

BackgroundCoercion has usually been equated with legal detention. Non-statutory
pressures to adhere to treatment,'leverage', have been identified as widespread in US public …

Coercive measures are a highly controversial issue in mental health. Although scientific
evidence on their impact is limited, they are frequently used. Furthermore, they lead to a high …

To assess the association between different types of coercive measures (forced medication,
seclusion, and restraint) used during involuntary psychiatric admission and two treatment …

OBJECTIVES: Staff attitudes to the use of coercion are assumed to be a predictive factor for
how much coercion is used in mental health care. The aim of this project has been to …

Objective: No evidence is available on the relative restrictiveness of seclusion and
mechanical restraint, although guidelines recommend use of the least restrictive …