BACKGROUND There is a lack of evidence to underpin decisions on what constitutes the most effective and least restrictive form of coercive intervention when responding to violent behavior. Therefore we compared ratings of effectiveness and subjective distress by 125 inpatients across four types of coercive interventions. METHODS Effectiveness was assessed through ratings of patient behavior i...

To assess the association between different types of coercive measures (forced medication, seclusion, and restraint) used during involuntary psychiatric admission and two treatment outcomes: retrospective views of patients towards their admission and length of inpatient stay. A secondary analysis was conducted of data previously gathered by the EUNOMIA study (n = 2030 involuntarily detained inp...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To evaluate the potential coerciveness of clinical research trial (CRT) acronyms, and to make clinicians aware that some CRT acronyms may be coercive to research subjects by subliminally enticing or outwardly promising something that the CRT may not be able to deliver. DESIGN Analysis of CRT acronyms for pleasantness and meaningfulness as assessed by studies in the behavioral...

Explicitly coercive measures are sometimes necessary in the care and treatment of psychiatric patients. The author describes how use of such measures is not antithetical to patient-centered, recovery-oriented practice either in inpatient or outpatient settings. Citing a definition widely used by advocates to describe the overarching goal of recovery--"a full, meaningful, and self-determined lif...

0.1016/j.nanoen.2 lsevier Ltd. All rig thors. : [email protected] . Zhu), spriya@vt. ntributed equally Abstract We demonstrate the presence of ferroelectric domains in CH3NH3PbI3 by piezoresponse force microscopy and quantify the coercive field to the switching of the polarization of ferroelectric CH3NH3PbI3. For CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite solar cell, negative electric poling decreases the net built-in...

Operational activities of firms accumulate over time and adversely impact the environment, which, in turn, threaten earth’s ecosystem sustainable development agendas. Both internal- external-specific pressures may play a crucial part firm’s decision to conform environmental accountability practices (EAP). This paper examines associations between institutional isomorphic forces EAP among environ...