Staff attitudes and thoughts about the use of coercion in acute psychiatric wards

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 893-901

  Husum, Tonje Lossius ^a   Bjørngaard, Johan Haakon ^a,d   Finset, Arnstein ^b   Ruud, Torleif ^b,c  

^a SINTEF   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c AKERSHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Acute psychiatric wards; Coercion; Multilevel analysis; Staff attitudes

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MALE; MANPOWER; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARD; THINKING;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COERCION; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; QUESTIONNAIRES; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052310945     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-010-0259-2     Document Type: Article

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