The usage of coercive measures in psychiatric units and its potential counter-therapeutic impact on outcome

EBN Perspectives, Mental Health

“…Ebrahimi (2019)4 evaluated the effectiveness of an intervention (REsTrain YOURSELF) on reducing the levels of physical restraint in mental health settings, identifying the potential for such interventions to enhance staff confidence at identifying alternative and less harmful ways of maintaining patient and staff safety. Their study provided important support for adopting a patient-centred approach and challenging coercive13 practices and identified a need for future robust research on a range of outcome measures for acute mental health interventions.…”

“…The usage of coercive measures13 in psychiatric units and their potential counter-therapeutic impact on outcome (https://ebn.bmj.com/content/early/2019/07/11/ebnurs-2019-103125).…”