Accessible summary What is known on the subject? Aggressive behaviour is a major
problem in clinical practice of mental health care and can result in the use of coercive …

Residential youth care settings should provide youth with safe environments where they are
supported and treated. However, there are aspects of residential youth care that threaten its …

OBJECTIVES: This study examined the use of seclusion and mechanical restraint from 1990
to 2000 and the rate of staff injuries from patient assaults from 1998 to 2000 in a state …

Background Previous research on mental health care has shown considerable differences
in use of seclusion, restraint and involuntary medication among different wards and …

Aims and objectives To investigate the knowledge, attitude, intention and practice of nurses
towards physical restraint and factors influencing these variables. Background A literature …

Accessible summary What is known on the subject? Coercive interventions (CI) in
emergency psychiatry face increasing criticism, as they can be an emotional, even traumatic …

Aim. This paper reports a study examining the knowledge, attitudes and practices of staff
with regard to the use of restraints in rehabilitative settings, and quantifying the direct and …

The use of physical restraint exposes patients and staff to negative effects, including death.
Therefore, teaching nursing staff to develop the improve knowledge, skills, and attitudes …

Twelve psychiatric inpatients were qualitatively interviewed after physical restraint. Of these,
seven had also been pharmacologically restrained. Patients gave refusal of medication …

The use of coercion in mental health care is not self‐evident and requires moral justification.
A joint understanding is difficult to achieve, because patients and health professionals often …