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The use of coercive measures in psychiatry
Nawka, Alexander ; Raboch, Jiří (advisor) ; Vevera, Jan (referee) ; Dragašek, Jozef (referee)
Psychiatry has unique status among other medical disciplines where patients` autonomy might be restricted in the best interest of the patient in order to both cure and control the patient. Coercive measures such as seclusion, physical restraint or forced medication are widely used in clinical practice as methods for managing acute, disturbed or violent psychiatric patients. This thesis was carried out as a part of the EUNOMIA project (European Evaluation of Coercion in Psychiatry and Harmonization of Best Clinical Practice) in which centers from twelve European countries recruited involuntary admitted patients. The research questions of this thesis were the following: what are the socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of the patients who receive coercive measures; what types of coercive measures are used with involuntarily treated patients; what are the internal and external risk factors for their use; and finally what are the gender differences among involuntary admitted coerced patients with schizophrenia. All together we evaluated a group of 2,030 involuntarily admitted patients, in which 1,462 coercive measures were used with 770 patients (38%). The percentage of patients receiving coercive measures in each country varied between 21% and 59%. These twelve countries varied greatly in...

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