Background and objectives Coercion in psychiatry is legally tolerated as a last resort. The
reduction of the use of coercion is a shared goal of hospital administrators, medical and …

Background and objectives Coercion is frequent in psychiatry, with an overall downward
trend. Knowledge on the application of seclusion and restraint in open wards remains …

BackgroundCoercive measures (such as seclusion, mechanical restraint, and forced
medication) during psychiatric inpatient treatment should be avoided whenever possible …

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

Background: Mechanical restraints and forced procedures in psychiatric wards are of major
concern in Denmark and there is a desire to reduce these procedures to a minimum. So far …

Background Epidemiological studies have demonstrated considerable differences in the use
of coercive measures among psychiatric hospitals; however, the underlying reasons for …

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 …

Accessible Summary What is known on the subject? Coercive practices such as restraint
(physically holding a person) or seclusion (containing a person in locked room) are …

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 …

Introduction Even if coercive measures are widely applied in psychiatry and have numerous
well-known drawbacks, there is limited known on the agreement among mental healthcare …