Identifying predictors of adverse outcomes after termination of seclusion in psychiatric intensive care units.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Seclusion is a restrictive practice that many healthcare services are trying to reduce. Previous studies have sought to identify predictors of seclusion initiation, but few have investigated factors associated with adverse outcomes after seclusion termination.

Aims

To assess the factors that predict an adverse outcome within 24 h of seclusion termination.

Method

In a cohort study of individuals secluded in psychiatric intensive care units, we investigated factors associated with any of the following outcomes: actual violence, attempted violence, or reinitiation of seclusion within 24 h of seclusion termination. Among the seclusion episodes that were initiated between 29 March 2018 and 4 March 2019, we investigated the exposures of medication cooperation, se

SUBMITTER: Rogers JP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11363086 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature