Attitude of young psychiatrists toward coercive measures in psychiatry: a case vignette study in Japan.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Every psychiatrist must pay careful attention to avoid violating human rights when initiating coercive treatments such as seclusion and restraint. However, these interventions are indispensable in clinical psychiatry, and they are often used as strategies to treat agitated patients. In this study, we investigated young psychiatrists' attitudes toward psychiatric coercive measures.

Methods

A total of 183 young psychiatrists participated as subjects in our study. A questionnaire with a case vignette describing a patient with acute psychosis was sent to the study subjects via the Internet or by mail. This questionnaire included scoring the necessity for hospitalization, and the likelihood of prescribing seclusion and/or restraint, on a 9-point Likert scale (with 9 in

SUBMITTER: Tateno M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2754431 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature