Objective: To examine the impact of coercive interventions (CI) on patients' evaluations of
psychiatric hospitals as adversaries versus allies. Methods: Self-constructed interviews were …

Objective This review aimed to provide an aggregative synthesis of the qualitative evidence
on patients' experienced coercion during voluntary and involuntary psychiatric …

Under certain conditions, coercive interventions in psychotic patients can help to regain
insight and alleviate symptoms, but can also traumatize subjects. This study explored …

The decision to use coercive measures (restraint, seclusion and forced medication) in
psychiatric practice is controversial in mental health care. The EUNOMIA study was funded …

Objective Research on coercion in mental healthcare has recently shifted to the
investigation of subjective aspects, both on the side of the people with mental disorders …

Background Measures of perceived coercion at psychiatric hospital admission have been
developed. We aimed to investigate predictors of perceived coercion in subjects admitted to …

A project based on the “Breakthrough series” for reducing the patients' perception of
coercion in psychiatric acute wards is presented. Three different measures were chosen: 1) …

Background: Despite the extensive research and intense debate on coercion in psychiatry
we have seen in recent years, little is still known about formally voluntarily admitted patients …

Objective This study evaluated involuntarily admitted psychiatric patients' and their
perception of coercive measures (ie involuntary admission and physical or pharmacological …

Coercive interventions for psychiatric patients are controversial. Research on different
preventive measures has increased over the last years. The present study examined …