ArticleBMC psychiatry2018
Cross-sectional study on nurses' attitudes regarding coercive measures: the importance of socio-demographic characteristics, job satisfaction, and strategies for coping with stress.
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- Measurement Properties of the Staff Attitude to Coercion Scale: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- Influence of nursing staff attitudes and characteristics on the use of coercive measures in acute mental health services-A systematic review.Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing · 2020Pooled it
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- Qatar mental health law: Knowledge and attitude among healthcare workers.Qatar medical journal · 2026Article
- Attitudes Toward Coercion Among Mental Healthcare Workers in Italy: A Cross-Sectional Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Exploring Nurses' and Nursing Students' Attitudes Toward Coercive and Technological Measures in Mental Health: A Conceptual Framework and Study Protocol.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2024Article
- Psychometric properties of the Turkish version of Staff Attitude to Coercion Scale.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- Coercion in psychiatry: psychometric validation of the Portuguese Staff Attitudes to Coercion Scale (SACS).Discover mental health · 2024Article
- A Scoping Review on Staff Attitudes towards the Use of Coercion in Mental Healthcare.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Zero Tolerance for Coercion? Historical, Cultural and Organisational Contexts for Effective Implementation of Coercion-Free Mental Health Services around the World.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- A German Version of the Staff Attitude to Coercion Scale. Development and Empirical Validation.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundCoercive measures are containment methods used in psychiatry to curb patients' disruptive and aggressive behaviours towards themselves, others or objects. The prevalence of the practice of coercive measures in psychiatry is directly related to the attitudes of the staff. When discussing these attitudes, nurses are often particularly singled out. The purpose of the study is to research the impact of individual factors on nurses' attitudes in the decision-making process for the use of coercive measures.
methodsA cross-sectional study among all psychiatric nursing staff in Slovenia (n = 367, 79%) was conducted over the years 2013/2014. Standardized questionnaires were used, including a survey of nurses' attitudes to the use of seclusion, the Job Descriptive Index, and the Folkman-Lazarus test.
resultsNurses' attitudes towards special coercive measures are predominantly negative ([Formula: see text] = 11.312, SD = 2.641). The factors that explain a positive attitude are as follows: female gender (β = - 0.236, p < 0.001), fewer years of service (β = - 0.149, p = 0.023), emotion-focused strategies of coping with stress (β = 0.139, p = 0.020), and less-threatening patient behaviour (β = 0.157, p = 0.012).
conclusionsThe effects of some known factors did not prove important in the model. Newly recognized factors are "less-threatening patient behaviour" and "emotion-focused strategies of coping with stress". Therefore, attitudes towards special coercive measures in psychiatry must be regarded as contextualized, interactive, and multidimensional phenomena that cannot be explained merely through a defined set of factors.
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