Background There is a growing consensus to reduce the use of restrictive care practices in
mental health settings to minimise the physical and psychological complications for patients …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Restraint use is associated with negative mental health
outcomes, injury risk, and known disparities in use. Improved understanding of restraint use …

Accessible summary What is known on the subject? Seclusion and restraint still regularly
occur within inpatient mental health services. The Council of Europe requires the …

Background and Objectives: mechanical restraint (MR) is a controversial issue in emergency
psychiatry and should be better studied to implement other alternative therapeutic …

Although the use of verbal de‐escalation in nursing has been shown to be an effective tool
for controlling agitation and avoiding mechanical restraint, there is scarce evidence …

Objective: To determine the relationships, if any, between use of seclusion and restraint and
factors such as demographic parameters, diagnosis, legal admission status (voluntary or …

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic was associated with increased mental health
problems in the general population, yet psychiatric hospital admissions decreased. Early …

The aim of this study was to analyze the attitudes of professionals in Mental Health Services
throughout Spain who are directly or indirectly involved in the use of mechanical restraint …

The need to better monitor coercion practices in psychiatric hospitals has been recognised.
We aim to describe how physical restraint events occur in psychiatric hospitals and identify …

Introduction The PreVCo study examines whether a structured, operationalized
implementation of guidelines to prevent coercion actually leads to fewer coercive measures …