Objective To evaluate the effects of a preventive monitoring program targeted to reduce
compulsory rehospitalization and perceived coercion in patients with severe mental …

Background Capacity-based mental health legislation was introduced in Norway on 1
September 2017. The aim was to increase the autonomy of patients with severe mental …

Background: For a reduction in the use of coercive interventions it will be necessary to
identify patients at risk. The aim of this study was to explore the impact of basic patient …

Background: Coercive physical measures are commonly used in psychiatric units
throughout the world for the management of severe behaviourally disturbed patients. Aim …

Following the implementation of the new Norwegian law regarding mental healthcare in
2001, Norwegian hospital-based psychologists with clinical specialist qualifications can …

BACKGROUND: It has been hypothesized that a degree of coercion is a necessary
component in using outpatient commitment to attain therapeutic outcome for those people …

Legal-, perceived-and objective coercion were examined both separately and together as a
measure of accumulated coercion, to determine how coercion affected patient satisfaction in …

Involuntary hospitalization of people with mental illness raises important ethical and legal
concerns worldwide; however, only a handful of studies have investigated the patients' …

Investigated the relationship between legal status and perceptions of coerciveness of
hospitalization and between coercion and the efficacy of hospitalization with 220 patients …

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 …