BackgroundViolent behaviour among persons with severe mental illness (SMI) causes
public concern and is associated with illness relapse, hospital recidivism and poor outcomes …

Coercive practices, such as physical restraint, are used globally to respond to violent,
aggressive and other behaviours displayed by mental health service users. 1 A number of …

Objectives The objective of the study was to investigate how mental health professionals
describe and reflect upon different forms of informal coercion. Results In a deductive …

A project based on the “Breakthrough series” for reducing the patients' perception of
coercion in psychiatric acute wards is presented. Three different measures were chosen: 1) …

Summary Background The CRIMSON (CRisis plan IMpact: Subjective and Objective
coercion and eNgagement) study is an individual level, randomised controlled trial that …

Abstract Background The Indian Mental Health Care Act 2017 (MHCA-2017) advocates the
duty to provide treatment in the least coercive manner. Little data exists on how Indian …

Aims. There are growing calls to reduce, and where possible eliminate, the use of seclusion
and restraint in mental health settings, but the attitudes and beliefs of consumers, carers and …

A questionnaire-based study examining the experiences and attitudes of staff to restraint
and seclusion in a Norwegian university psychiatric hospital demonstrated that a majority of …

Introduction Despite public opinion and policy interventions, restraint remains a common
practice. This is also the case in the Netherlands, where projects aimed to reduce seclusion …

Coercion remains a central aspect of many people's mental healthcare. It can include the
use of legislation to restrict freedoms, the use of physical restraint, the restriction of freedom …