Psychiatric patients experiences with mechanical restraints: an interview study

K Lanthén, M Rask, C Sunnqvist - Psychiatry journal, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
… the application of mechanical restraints, although psychiatric patients’ experiences of …
psychiatric patients’ experience of mechanical restraints and to describe the care the patients

[HTML][HTML] Alternatives to the use of mechanical restraints in the management of agitation or aggressions of psychiatric patients: A scoping review

D Fernández-Costa, J Gómez-Salgado… - Journal of clinical …, 2020 - mdpi.com
… with restraints in the management of agitated psychiatric patients. … Both simple interventions
and complex restraint programs … to reduce the use of restraints and coercive measures and …

The use of mechanical restraints in psychiatric hospitals

ER Saks - Yale LJ, 1985 - HeinOnline
psychiatrists do not even see mechanical restraints as a "regrettable but permissible emergency
liberty infringement. Rather, in their view, restraints … a form of patient management, with …

The ethics of mechanical restraints

RJ Moss, J La Puma - The Hastings Center Report, 1991 - JSTOR
… that restraints can be inefficacious and dangerous, we contend that mechanical restraints
should … At the very least, this requires that patients or their reliable proxies give formal informed …

Mechanical and pharmacological restraints in acute psychiatric wards—Why and how are they used?

M Knutzen, S Bjørkly, G Eidhammer, S Lorentzen… - Psychiatry …, 2013 - Elsevier
… on the use of restraint (Mayoral and … psychiatry department, we found that mechanical
restraint used separately was most common for native-born patients but that immigrant patients

A review of interventions to reduce mechanical restraint and seclusion among adult psychiatric inpatients

D Stewart, M Van der Merwe, L Bowers… - Issues in mental …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
… of mechanical restraint and seclusion among adult psychiatric … , but commonly included new
restraint or seclusion policies, … Most studies reported reduced levels of mechanical restraint

Using mechanical restraints on acutely disturbed psychiatric patients

B Bursten - Psychiatric Services, 1975 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
… In the face of calls for totally abolishing the use of mechanical restraints and the fact that …
patients may exist, we must ask if the use of restraints with acutely disturbed psychiatric patients

Mechanical restraint—Which interventions prevent episodes of mechanical restraint?—A systematic review

J Bak, M Brandt‐Christensen… - … in psychiatric care, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
mechanical restraints is a risky intervention where patients can … of mechanical restraint on
patients feeling helpless, angry, trapped, sad, fearsome, unpleasant, or offended, and patients

Seclusion versus mechanical restraint in psychiatry–a systematic review

CS Gleerup, SD Østergaard, RS Hjuler - Acta neuropsychiatrica, 2019 - cambridge.org
… that the patients exposed to mechanical restraint generally exhibit … mechanical restraint,
the force needed to restrain a patient is likely more intense than that used to seclude a patient. …

Mechanical restraint and characteristics of patient, staff and shifts in a psychiatric ward

JS Kodal, JN Kjær, ER Larsen - Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
mechanical restraint (MR) in psychiatry has been present, from the ward to a political level
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