Corrigendum: Expert opinions on improving coercion data collection across Europe: a concept mapping study.

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A Scoping Review on Staff Attitudes towards the Use of Coercion in Mental Healthcare.

Attitudes of mental health professionals towards the use of coercion are highly relevant concerning its use coercion in mental healthcare, as mental health professionals have to weigh ethical arguments and decide within a legal frame in which situations to use coercion or not. Therefore, assessment of those attitudes is relevant for research in this field. A vital instrument to measure those attitudes towards the use of coercion is the Staff Attitude to Coercion Scale.

Expert opinions on improving coercion data collection across Europe: a concept mapping study.

Introduction: Coercion is frequently used in mental health practice. Since it overrides some patients' fundamental human rights, adequate use of coercion requires legal and ethical justifications. Having internationally standardised datasets to benchmark and monitor coercion reduction programs is desirable.

Opportunities and challenges of self-binding directives: A comparison of empirical research with stakeholders in three European countries.

Background: Self-binding directives (SBDs) are psychiatric advance directives that include a clause in which mental health service users consent in advance to involuntary hospital admission and treatment under specified conditions. Medical ethicists and legal scholars identified various potential benefits of SBDs but have also raised ethical concerns. Until recently, little was known about the views of stakeholders on the opportunities and challenges of SBDs.

Multi-dimensional recording of long-term treatment of patients with schizophrenic disorders compared to patients with major depression measured with the ASSESS battery.

Background: The aim of the study was to validate the course and outcome of treatment in patients with schizophrenic disorders and to compare it with those of patients with depression using a multidimensional assessing approach measuring psychopathological, social and cognitive levels of functioning.

Methods: We recruited = 86 chronically ill patients, = 41 with schizophrenic disorders and = 45 with depression and examined them by means of the ASSESS battery with 5 measuring points within one year.

Results: Psychopathological symptoms and cognitive functioning changed over time, but still remained.

[Documentation, Application and Efforts to Reduce Involuntary Admissions and Coercive Measures - Results from a Nationwide Study on Acute Psychiatric Hospitals in Germany].

Objective: This nationwide full census survey investigated the documentation status regarding involuntary admissions and coercive measures in psychiatric hospitals in Germany.

Methods: As part of the ZIPHER study, a questionnaire survey on the documentation, application and reduction of coercion was conducted ( = 147, response rate = 34.4 %).

Influence of mental health professionals' attitudes and personality traits on decision-making around coercion: Results from an experimental quantitative survey using case vignettes.

Objective: Research on coercion in mental healthcare has recently shifted to the investigation of subjective aspects, both on the side of the people with mental disorders affected and the staff members involved. In this context, the role of personality traits and attitudes of staff members in decision-making around coercion is increasingly being assessed. This study aimed to examine the role of staff attitudes towards coercion and staff members' personality traits in decision-making around coercion in an experimental setting.

[Changes in the Practice of Involuntary Hospitalization During the COVID-19 Pandemic - Experiences and Opinions of Chief Psychiatrists].

Objective: To collect experiences and opinions of chief psychiatrists in relation to changes in the practice of involuntary hospitalization during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods: Online survey among members of the Association of Chief Physicians for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy in North Rhine-Westphalia (LLPP) and analysis of protocols of LLPP board meetings.

Results: Changes in the practice of involuntary hospitalization have been perceived in contexts with and without direct reference to COVID-19.

A German Version of the Staff Attitude to Coercion Scale. Development and Empirical Validation.

Individual staff factors, such as personality traits and attitudes, are increasingly seen as an important factor in the reduction of coercion in mental health services. At the same time, only a few validated instruments exist to measure those factors and examine their influence on the use of coercion. The present study aimed to develop and validate a German version of the Staff Attitude to Coercion Scale (SACS).

Commentary 2: Qualitative Research with Vulnerable Persons-How to Ensure that Burdens and Benefits are Proportional and Fairly Distributed.

This case commentary investigates whether the risks and benefits of an interview study with persons under involuntary commitment on open-door policies in psychiatry were proportional and fairly distributed. Given that there is little data available on the views of service users on open-door policies, the study had significant social value. Because the individual benefits are limited in studies like this, we recommend that special measures be taken to forestall what has been called the "therapeutic misconception.

The social-psychiatric service and its role in compulsory hospitalization.

Coercive measures are a sensitive, much-discussed ethical and legal issue in the psychiatric context. Hence, the identification of their predictors and ways of prevention are of utmost importance. The present study aimed to determine the impact of the social-psychiatric services (SPS) in North Rhine Westphalia (NRW) on involuntary admissions according to the German Mental Health Act and to identify predictors for the reduction of these involuntary admissions.

Ward Atmosphere and Patient Satisfaction in Psychiatric Hospitals With Different Ward Settings and Door Policies. Results From a Mixed Methods Study.

Open-door policies in psychiatry are discussed as a means to improve the treatment of involuntarily committed patients in various aspects. Current research on open-door policies focuses mainly on objective effects, such as the number of coercive interventions or serious incidents. The aim of the present study was to investigate more subjective perceptions of different psychiatric inpatient settings with different door policies by analyzing ward atmosphere and patient satisfaction.