BackgroundCoercive treatment comprises a broad range of practices, ranging from implicit
or explicit pressure to accept certain treatment to the use of forced practices such as …

The use of coercion in psychiatric and mental health nursing is a major challenge, which can
lead to negative consequences for nurses and patients, including rupture in the therapeutic …

Importance Individuals with behavioral disorders are increasingly presenting to the
emergency department (ED), and associated episodes of agitation can cause significant …

Restrictive practices are often harmful and many academics, policy-makers and clinicians
agree that their use should be reduced in care settings. Specific focus on secure mental …

Background Self-binding directives instruct clinicians to overrule treatment refusal during
future severe episodes of illness. These directives are promoted as having the potential to …

Purpose To identify and summarise extant knowledge about patient ethnicity and the use of
various types of restrictive practices in adult mental health inpatient settings. Methods A …

Background Disparities in involuntary psychiatric hospitalisation between population
subgroups have been identified in adults, but little is known about the factors associated with …

Objective: Characterizing commitment as an involuntary psychiatric emergency detention
that possibly extends into a longer-term detention, the authors aimed to calculate population …

Background. Compulsory admission procedures of patients with mental disorders vary
between countries in Europe. The Ethics Committee of the European Psychiatric Association …

Accessible Summary What is known on the subject? Coercive practices such as restraint
(physically holding a person) or seclusion (containing a person in locked room) are …