Factors associated with involuntary hospitalisation for psychiatric patients in Switzerland: a retrospective study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite the scarce evidence for patients' benefits of coercion and its well-documented negative effects, the use of compulsion is still very common around Europe, with important variations among different countries. These variations have been partially explained by the different legal frameworks, but also by several individual-related, system-related and area-related characteristics, identified as predictors of the use of coercive measures. This study aimed to compare the socio-demographic and clinical profile as well as the referral and hospitalisation process of people voluntarily and involuntarily hospitalized in order to identify which factors could be associated with the use of coercion.

Methods

All psychiatric admissions occurred between the 1st January 2015

SUBMITTER: Silva B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6311042 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature