RESTRAINED PSYCHIATRIC OUTPATIENTS: NECESSITY, JUSTIFICATION OR VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS?

Seventy patients were brought restrained to a Psychiatric outpatient department over a three month period, with the commonest site of restraint being the wrist. They were compared with controls and it was found that restrained patients were more likely to be younger, belonging to a lower socioeconom...

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Autores principales: Akhtar, Sayeed, Jagawat, T.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1993
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2978465/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21743615
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description Seventy patients were brought restrained to a Psychiatric outpatient department over a three month period, with the commonest site of restraint being the wrist. They were compared with controls and it was found that restrained patients were more likely to be younger, belonging to a lower socioeconomic status, from a rural background and were more likely to be diagnosed as manic. The significance of these findings and their implications for the human rights of the mentally ill are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-29784652011-07-08 RESTRAINED PSYCHIATRIC OUTPATIENTS: NECESSITY, JUSTIFICATION OR VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS? Akhtar, Sayeed Jagawat, T. Indian J Psychiatry Original Article Seventy patients were brought restrained to a Psychiatric outpatient department over a three month period, with the commonest site of restraint being the wrist. They were compared with controls and it was found that restrained patients were more likely to be younger, belonging to a lower socioeconomic status, from a rural background and were more likely to be diagnosed as manic. The significance of these findings and their implications for the human rights of the mentally ill are discussed. Medknow Publications 1993 /pmc/articles/PMC2978465/ /pubmed/21743615 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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RESTRAINED PSYCHIATRIC OUTPATIENTS: NECESSITY, JUSTIFICATION OR VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS?
title RESTRAINED PSYCHIATRIC OUTPATIENTS: NECESSITY, JUSTIFICATION OR VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS?
title_full RESTRAINED PSYCHIATRIC OUTPATIENTS: NECESSITY, JUSTIFICATION OR VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS?
title_fullStr RESTRAINED PSYCHIATRIC OUTPATIENTS: NECESSITY, JUSTIFICATION OR VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS?
title_full_unstemmed RESTRAINED PSYCHIATRIC OUTPATIENTS: NECESSITY, JUSTIFICATION OR VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS?
title_short RESTRAINED PSYCHIATRIC OUTPATIENTS: NECESSITY, JUSTIFICATION OR VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS?
title_sort restrained psychiatric outpatients: necessity, justification or violation of human rights?
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