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 …

Background Recent guidance has called for the reduction of restrictive practice use owing to
growing concerns over the harmful physical and psychological effects for both patients and …

Following an initial springboard study, a further more extensive piece of research was
conducted to identify and evaluate approaches used to manage patient aggression and …

This paper examines mental health nurses' experiences of physical restraint in an acute
inpatient psychiatric setting using Van Manen's descriptive hermeneutic phenomenological …

Psychiatric nurses' thoughts and feelings about restraint use: a decision dilemma Patients
continue to be physically restrained in psychiatric in‐patient units. Studies concerned with …

Aims: The aim of this review was to assess whether restraint and seclusion are safe and
effective interventions for the short‐term management of disturbed/violent behaviour. Staff …

Seclusion is now widely recognized as a coercive strategy with negative consequences for
the consumers and staff involved. Nevertheless, this intervention continues to be used …

Background. Seclusion continues to be widely used in the management of disturbed
behaviour in hospitalized patients. While early research on the topic highlighted significant …

Accessible summary• An extensive review of empirical literature (n= 39) on patient and staff
perceptions of seclusion in psychiatric inpatient settings was undertaken.• Patients …

BACKGROUND: Disturbed psychiatric inpatients are managed using a range of containment
measures (eg seclusion, mechanical restraint) whose use differs by country. Little is known …