ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2021
The Role of Implicit and Explicit Staff Attitudes in the Use of Coercive Measures in Psychiatry.
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- Variations in definitions used for describing restrictive care practices (seclusion and restraint) in adult mental health inpatient units: a systematic review and content analysis.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2025Pooled it
- Systematic literature review of the use of Staff Attitudes to Coercion Scale (SACS).Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
- Measurement Properties of the Staff Attitude to Coercion Scale: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- Does changing clinicians' attitudes toward self-harm reduce coercive interventions in mental health inpatient settings? A quasi-experimental study of staff training.Borderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation · 2026Article
- Attitudes of psychiatric staff toward coercion: nationwide AttCo study.BJPsych open · 2025Article
- Attitudes Toward Coercion Among Mental Healthcare Workers in Italy: A Cross-Sectional Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Staff Attitude Towards Coercive Measures in Hospital and Community Psychiatric Settings.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Perceived determinants of the use of coercion in inpatient child and adolescent psychiatry: a qualitative interview study with staff.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Psychometric properties of the Turkish version of Staff Attitude to Coercion Scale.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- A Scoping Review on Staff Attitudes towards the Use of Coercion in Mental Healthcare.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Experience of violence and attitudes of staff members towards coercion in psychiatric settings: observational study.BJPsych open · 2024Article
- Attitudes towards persons with mental health conditions and psychosocial disabilities as rights holders in Ghana: a World Health Organization study.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
- Coercive containment measures for the management of self-cutting versus general disturbed behaviour: Differences in use and attitudes among mental health nursing staff.International journal of mental health nursing · 2022Article
- Development of the Japanese version of Staff Attitude to Coercion Scale.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
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Abstract
Many determinants leading to the use of different coercive measures in psychiatry have been widely studied and it seems that staff attitudes play a crucial role when it comes to the decision-making process about using coercion. However, research results about staff attitudes and their role in the use of coercive measures are inconsistent. This might be due to a focus on self-report studies asking for explicit answers, which involves the risk of bias. This study aimed to expand research on this topic by examining the impact of explicit and implicit staff attitudes on the use of coercive measures in clinical practice. In addition, the influence of gender, profession (nurses, psychiatrists), and years of professional experience as well as their influence on staff attitudes were examined. An adaption of the implicit association measure, the
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