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 …

The use of coercion to assure that people with a mental illness receive treatment has been
the focus one of the longest running controversies among mental health professionals. Until …

Materials and Methods The study is based on interviews with patients admitted to five closed
psychiatric wards at Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark (catchment area, 390,000 …

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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: 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 …

The literature on coercion has focused mainly on the compulsory treatment of psychiatric
patients in hospital. Coercion was thus often equated with involuntary status. However, in …

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 …

Despite a long-standing tradition of the use of coercion in psychiatric care, such as
involuntary admission and treatment, few have systematically addressed this issue. In recent …

The use of coercion in the treatment of individuals with severe and persistent mental illness
has been one of the most controversial issues in psychiatry and mental health law in the …