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Different forms of informal coercion in psychiatry: a qualitative study.
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- Informal Coercion Experienced by Adolescents in Mental Health Care-A Systematic Review.International journal of mental health nursing · 2026Pooled it
- Barriers and facilitators of shared decision making in acutely ill inpatients with schizophrenia-Qualitative findings from the intervention group of a randomised-controlled trial.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2021Trial
- Use of Coercion or Persuasion in Prehospital Treatment in the Region of Southern Denmark: A Retrospective Study.Acta anaesthesiologica Scandinavica · 2026Article
- Exploring Routine Practices of Coercion in Acute Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - Reflections for Practice.Journal of child and adolescent psychiatric nursing : official publication of the Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nurses, Inc · 2026Article
- "It's really about something! I can save the patient a lot of suffering if I get him to do it": between care and coercion in the use of non-invasive ventilation.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Care quality from the perspective of human rights as perceived by mental health professionals in Gran Canaria: a qualitative study.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Users' Experience of Treatment and Coercion in an Inpatient Medium-Stay Psychiatric Rehabilitation Unit: A Mixed Methods Study.Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing · 2025Article
- Perceived determinants of the use of coercion in inpatient child and adolescent psychiatry: a qualitative interview study with staff.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Dynamics of recovery in psychosis, stigmatization, and microaggressions in mental healthcare: a qualitative study of service users' narratives.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Strategies to promote treatment compliance: a grounded theory study with relatives of people with a serious mental health condition.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Factors and Processes Facilitating Recovery from Coercion in Mental Health Services-A Meta-Ethnography.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Exploring Patients' Feeling of Being Coerced During Psychiatric Hospital Admission: A Qualitative Study.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2023Article
- Persuasion or coercion? An empirical ethics analysis about the use of influence strategies in mental health community care.BMC health services research · 2022Article
- "Voluntary in quotation marks": a conceptual model of psychological pressure in mental healthcare based on a grounded theory analysis of interviews with service users.BMC psychiatry · 2022Article
- What does coercion in intensive care mean for patients and their relatives? A thematic qualitative study.BMC medical ethics · 2022Article
- Patients' perception of coercion with respect to antipsychotic treatment of psychotic disorders and its predictors.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2021Article
- Informal coercion during childbirth: risk factors and prevalence estimates from a nationwide survey of women in Switzerland.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectivesThe objective of the study was to investigate how mental health professionals describe and reflect upon different forms of informal coercion.
resultsIn a deductive qualitative content analysis of focus group interviews, several examples of persuasion, interpersonal leverage, inducements, and threats were found. Persuasion was sometimes described as being more like a negotiation. Some participants worried about that the use of interpersonal leverage and inducements risked to pass into blackmail in some situations. In a following inductive analysis, three more categories of informal coercion was found: cheating, using a disciplinary style and referring to rules and routines. Participants also described situations of coercion from other stakeholders: relatives and other authorities than psychiatry. The results indicate that informal coercion includes forms that are not obviously arranged in a hierarchy, and that its use is complex with a variety of pathways between different forms before treatment is accepted by the patient or compulsion is imposed.
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