Abstract Background Since Goffman's seminal work on psychiatric institutions,
deinstitutionalization has become a leading term in the psychiatric debate. It described the …

Background: Service user perspectives are essential for the evaluation and development of
mental health services. Service users expressing less satisfaction with services …

Purpose Few studies have focused on the experience of involuntary psychiatric
hospitalization among youth, especially the impact of these experiences on engagement …

Within law and legal scholarship there are different models of legal personality and legal
capacity. The most well known of these emphasises individual rationality, and is distilled into …

Purpose To explore involuntary patients' retrospective views on why their hospitalisation
was right or wrong. Methods Involuntary patients were recruited from 22 hospitals in …

Objective: The purpose of this article was to assess the satisfaction of adult patients who
received mental health services (MHS) in healthcare networks staffed by multidisciplinary …

Objective There is an elevated risk for suicide in the year following psychiatric
hospitalization. The present study examined whether perceived coercion during admission …

Background Family caregivers of people with mental disorders are frequently involved in
involuntary hospital admissions of their relatives. Objective To explore family caregivers' …

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

Background Service users express dissatisfaction with inpatient care and their concerns
revolve around staff interactions, involvement in treatment decisions, the availability of …