A cross-sectional study of experienced coercion in adolescent mental health inpatients.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Involuntary care and coercive measures are frequently present in mental healthcare for adolescents. The purpose of this study was to examine to what extent adolescents perceive or experience coercion during inpatient mental health care, and to examine predictors of experienced coercion. METHODS:A cross-sectional sample of 96 adolescent inpatients from 10 Norwegian acute and combined (acute and sub-acute) psychiatric wards reported their experienced coercion on Coercion Ladder and the Experienced Coercion Scale in questionnaires. Staff reported use of formal coercion, diagnoses, and psychosocial functioning. We used two tailed t-tests and mixed effects models to analyze the impact from demographics, alliance with parents, use of formal coercion, diagnostic condition, and global p

SUBMITTER: Nyttingnes O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5977498 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature