ArticleJournal of neurosciences in rural practice
Caregivers' Attitude and Perspective on Coercion and Restraint Practices on Psychiatric Inpatients from South India.
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- Systematic literature review of the use of Staff Attitudes to Coercion Scale (SACS).Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
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- Carers' Perceptions of Seclusion and Restraints in Mental Healthcare: An Integrative Literature Review.International journal of mental health nursing · 2025Review
- Prevalence of restraint use in psychiatric inpatient care facilities in India: A systematic review.Indian journal of psychiatry · 2025Review
- Team Collaboration Experiences of Nurses and Physicians Working in Inpatient Psychiatry Units Related to Physical Restraint Practices: A Qualitative Study.Florence Nightingale journal of nursing · 2025Article
- A Scoping Review on Staff Attitudes towards the Use of Coercion in Mental Healthcare.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- A Cross-Sectional Study to Assess the Frequency of Restraint, and Knowledge and Attitudes of the Caregivers of Patients Toward Restraint in a General Hospital Psychiatry Setting from South India.Indian journal of psychological medicine · 2022Article
- A German Version of the Staff Attitude to Coercion Scale. Development and Empirical Validation.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
- Is it the right time to implement Community Treatment Order in India?Indian journal of psychiatry · 2019Review
- Alternatives to use of restraint: A path toward humanistic care.Indian journal of psychiatry · 2019Review
- Clinician attitude and perspective on the use of coercive measures in clinical practice from tertiary care mental health establishment - A cross-sectional study.Indian journal of psychiatryArticle
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Abstract
backgroundCoercion and restraint practices in psychiatric care are common phenomena and often controversial and debatable ethical issue. Caregivers' attitude and perspective on coercion and restraint practices on psychiatric inpatients have received relatively less research attention till date.
aimsCaregivers' attitude and perspective on coercion and restraint practices on psychiatric inpatients. METHODOLOGY: This is a hospital-based, a descriptive, cross-sectional study. A total of 200 (
resultsThe mean age was 43.8 (±14.9) years. About 67.5% of the caregivers were family members, 60.5% of them were male and 69.5% were from low-socioeconomic status. Caregivers used multiple methods were used to bring patients into the hospital. Threat (52.5%) was the most common method of coercion followed by persuasion (48.5%). Caregivers felt necessary and acceptable to use chemical restraint (82.5%), followed by physical restraint (71%) and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) (56.5%) during acute and emergency psychiatric care to control imminent risk behavior of patients.
conclusionThreat, persuasion and physical restraint were the common methods to bring patients to bring acutely disturbed patients to mental health care. Most patients caregivers felt the use of chemical restraint, physical restraint and ECT as necessary for acute and emergency care in patients with mental illness.
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