Journal article
Quality of life and functioning one year after experiencing accumulated coercive events during psychiatric admission
S Shannon, E Roche, K Madigan, LJ Renwick, C Dolan, P Devitt, L Feeney, KC Murphy, B O'Donoghue
Psychiatric Services | AMER PSYCHIATRIC PUBLISHING, INC | Published : 2015
Abstract
Objectives: The study aimed to determine the number of accumulated coercive events experienced by patients during inpatient admission, the patients' functioning and quality of life (QOL) one year after discharge, and associations between these variables and patient characteristics and between followup outcomes and number of accumulated coercive events. Methods: A prospective cohort study was undertaken at three community services and an independent hospital in Ireland (N=162). Accumulated coercive events scores were based on patients' legal status, perceived coercion, and exposure to physical restraint, seclusion, or forced medication. Results: Most (68%) experienced at least one coercive ev..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The project was partially funded by a grant from the Mental Health Commission of Ireland. The authors thank the following members of the former SOURCE committee: Ciaran Crummey, Ph.D., Darach Murphy, and Veronica Ranieri, M.A., M.Sc., for data collection and Karen Cobbe for administrative support. Mr. Shannon is undertaking a Ph.D. dissertation on the topic of coercion that is funded by the Mental Health Commission of Ireland. Dr. Feeney occasionally provides independent psychiatric opinion to the Mental Health Commission of Ireland.