Different forms of informal coercion in psychiatry: a qualitative study

Autor: Veikko Pelto-Piri, Lars Kjellin, Ulrika Hylén, Emanuele Valenti, Stefan Priebe
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: BMC Research Notes, Vol 12, Iss 1, Pp 1-4 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1756-0500
DOI: 10.1186/s13104-019-4823-x
Popis: 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 other authorities than psychiatry. The results indicate that informal coercion includes forms that are not obviously arranged in a hierarchy, and that its use is complex with a variety of pathways between different forms before treatment is accepted by the patient or compulsion is imposed.
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