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 in mental health care is not self‐evident and requires moral justification.
A joint understanding is difficult to achieve, because patients and health professionals often …

Assertive community treatment (ACT) has been claimed to be paternalistic and coercive, yet
little is known about how patients experience the assertive aspects of ACT. To explore views …

The aim of this study was to explore possible regional differences in the use of coercion in
psychiatric care as experienced by patients and relatives. At four psychiatric care settings in …

Background Influence strategies such as persuasion and interpersonal leverage are used in
mental health care to influence patient behaviour and improve treatment adherence. One …

This study examines self-reported coercion in subjects with severe mental illness who were
randomly assigned in an experimental study to continue under, or be released from …

Introduction: Coercion is frequent in clinical practice, particularly in psychiatry. Since it
overrides some fundamental rights of patients (notably their liberty of movement and …

Background: In 2008, the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or
Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) criticized the use of mechanical restraint in …

Although the recent development of a measure for perceived coercion has led to great
progress in research on coercion in psychiatric settings, there still exists no consensus on …

Introduction Perceived coercion is not exclusively related to the patient's legal status at
admission. Patients are not always aware of their correct status and voluntary patients often …