Characterizing the patient experience of physical restraint in psychiatric settings via a linguistic, sentiment, and metaphor analysis.

Physical Restraint (PR) is a coercive procedure used in emergency psychiatric care to ensure safety in life-threatening situations. Because of its traumatic nature, studies emphasize the importance of considering the patient's subjective experience. We pursued this aim by overcoming classic qualitative approaches and innovatively applying a multilayered semiautomated language analysis to a corpus of narratives about PR collected from 99 individuals across seven mental health services in Italy.

High frequency of psychopathology in subjects wishing to lose weight: an observational study in Italian subjects.

Objective: To investigate the frequency of psychiatric disorders in subjects wishing to lose weight categorized according to BMI.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Setting: An academic outpatient clinical nutrition service in Italy.