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 …

Background: Coercive measures are applied in psychiatry as a last resort to control self-and
hetero-aggressive behaviors in situations where all other possible strategies have failed. For …

Background: Use of coercive measures in mental health care is an important issue for
research. There are scarce data available on perception and attitudes toward coercion …

Background Despite improvements in psychiatric inpatient care, patient restrictions in
psychiatric hospitals are still in use. Studying perceptions among patients who have been …

Background: Coercion and restraint practices in psychiatric care are common phenomena
and often controversial and debatable ethical issue. Caregivers' attitude and perspective on …

Involuntary care is a feature of mental health services around the world. In addition to
involuntary admission and treatment, specific coercive practices include seclusion and …

Background: Little is known about how patients in India perceive coercion in psychiatric
care. Aims: To assess perceived coercion in persons with mental disorder admitted …

Abstract Background The current Mental Health Care Bill (MHCB)–2013 in India advocates
least restrictive alternatives (LRA) in psychiatric treatment. However, we have little evidence …

Aims and methodTo assess how common the subjective experience of coercion is in
psychiatric care and what affects its prevalence. A review of published data was undertaken …

Indian Journal of Psychiatry 52 (3), Jul-Sep 2010 204 two-thirds of the committed versus
nearly one-third of the voluntarily admitted patients reported the occurrence of coercive …