Different forms of informal coercion in psychiatry: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The objective of the study was to investigate how mental health professionals describe and reflect upon different forms of informal coercion.

Results

In a deductive qualitative content analysis of focus group interviews, several examples of persuasion, interpersonal leverage, inducements, and threats were found. Persuasion was sometimes described as being more like a negotiation. Some participants worried about that the use of interpersonal leverage and inducements risked to pass into blackmail in some situations. In a following inductive analysis, three more categories of informal coercion was found: cheating, using a disciplinary style and referring to rules and routines. Participants also described situations of coercion from other stakeholders: relatives and o

SUBMITTER: Pelto-Piri V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6889621 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature