Background Coercive measures in psychiatry are a controversial topic and raise ethical,
legal and clinical issues. Involuntary admission of patients is a long-lasting problem and …

Coercive measures are a sensitive, much‐discussed ethical and legal issue in the
psychiatric context. Hence, the identification of their predictors and ways of prevention are of …

Despite efforts to reduce coercion in psychiatry, involuntary hospitalizations remain frequent,
representing more than half of all admissions in some European regions. Since October …

Background. Compulsory admission procedures of patients with mental disorders vary
between countries in Europe. The Ethics Committee of the European Psychiatric Association …

Background: Germany provides a wide range of highly developed mental health care to its
citizens. The aim of this study was to identify factors influencing the voluntariness of …

Number and procedures of involuntary hospital admissions vary in Europe according to the
different socio-cultural contexts. The European Commission has funded the EUNOMIA study …

Background: When persons with a mental illness present a danger to themselves or others,
involuntary hospital admission can be used to initiate an immediate inpatient treatment …

Background Despite the scarce evidence for patients' benefits of coercion and its well-
documented negative effects, the use of compulsion is still very common around Europe …

Coercive measures that restrict personal freedom have been in the focus of critical public
interest since the beginning of modern psychiatry. Psychiatric hospitals have the two-fold …

Background In the federal state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, collecting data on coercive
measures in psychiatric hospitals and supplying this data to a central register has been …