Srpski arhiv za celokupno lekarstvo 2011 Volume 139, Issue suppl. 1, Pages: 14-20
https://doi.org/10.2298/SARH11S1014K
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Involuntary psychiatric hospitalization: Current status and future prospects
Kallert Thomas W. (Park Hospital Leipzig, Department of Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine, and Psychotherapy, Leipzig, Germany + Faculty of Medicine, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany)
The general aims of this article are: a) to cover the current status of
research on the important clinical and human rights issue of involuntary
psychiatric hospitalization, and b) to discuss some factors which might
influence future developments in this area of mental health care provision.
Firstly, the article will outline main results from two literature reviews on
outcomes of involuntary hospital admission. Secondly, selected results from
the clinical part of a recent European multi-site research project on
coercion in psychiatry (Acronym: EUNOMIA) will be presented in detail on the
following issues: the association of patients’ views of involuntary hospital
admission and differences in legislation, patient characteristics associated
with more or less positive outcomes of coerced hospital admission, coercive
measures (e.g. mechanical restraint, seclusion and forced medication) used
during these hospitalizations. Thirdly and finally, the article will shed
some light on future prospects of this topic. Thus, some recommendations for
best clinical practice in the use of involuntary hospital admission will be
discussed, and arguments for two future scenarios, increase vs. decrease of
involuntary psychiatric hospitalizations, will be contrasted and analyzed.
Keywords: involuntary psychiatric hospitalization, coerced admission, coercion, human rights, mental health legislation, best practice recommendation