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 …

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 …

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: 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 …

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 …