Background: Determining the clinical effects of coercion is a difficult challenge, raising
ethical, legal, and methodological questions. Despite limited scientific evidence on …

This article systematically reviews the literature on the outcome of acute hospitalization for
adult general psychiatric patients admitted involuntarily as compared to patients admitted …

Shared decision-making refers to a process of health care delivery in which practitioners
and clients seeking help for problems or disorders collaborate to access relevant information …

Background Seclusion and restraint are interventions currently permitted for use in mental
health services to control or manage a person's behaviour. In Australia, serious concerns …

BackgroundLittle is known about the long-term outcome of involuntary admissions to
psychiatric hospitals. AimsTo assess involuntary readmissions and patients' retrospective …

Objective: This study aimed to assess involuntary inpatients' satisfaction with treatment and
explore how coercion and other factors are associated with satisfaction. Methods: An …

BackgroundThe physical environment is presumed to have an effect on aggression and also
on the use of seclusion on psychiatric wards. Multicentre studies that include a broad variety …

BackgroundShort-term structured risk assessment is presumed to reduce incidents of
aggression and seclusion on acute psychiatric wards. Controlled studies of this approach …

Objective: Increasing patient autonomy and decreasing coercion are frequently cited goals
in mental health care. Research suggests that the therapeutic relationship and patients' …

Setting META Services (now Recovery Innovations) is a mental health agency that provides
a range of mental health recovery-oriented services. At the time of this study, two crisis …