The early and correct assessment of psychomotor agitation (PMA) is essential to ensure
prompt intervention by healthcare professionals to improve the patient's condition, protect …

Background Psychomotor agitation (PMA) is a state of motor restlessness and mental
tension that requires prompt recognition, appropriate assessment and management to …

Background There is a scarce number of studies on the cost of agitation and containment
interventions and their results are still inconclusive. We aimed to calculate the economic …

Agitation is a common and costly phenomenon associated with a number of psychiatric
conditions including schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Early identification and prompt …

Psychomotor agitation is characterised by an increase in psychomotor activity, restlessness
and irritability. People with psychomotor agitation respond by over-reacting to both intrinsic …

BACKGROUND: International recommendations have called to implement strategies to
reduce the use of coercion in psychiatric settings. However, in Spain there is a lack of …

Accessible Summary What is already known about the topic? Our present understanding of
mechanical restraint is heterogenous, largely due to the important differences between …

Background: Severe mental disorder (SMD) is understood in a first approximation as a
disorder of thought, emotion, or behavior of long duration, which entails a variable degree of …

Background The management of acute agitation manifesting in patients with schizophrenia
or bipolar disorder requires swift pharmacological intervention to provide rapid symptomatic …

Aim: To create and analyze an instrument to assess the possible agitation triggers of
hospitalized psychiatric patients. Background: No tools exist for identifying according to a …