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Commentary: seclusion and mechanical restraint of psychiatric patients in Israel - an update
Recently, Miodownik et al. reported in this journal the results of a study on seclusion and mechanical restraint of psychiatric patients in Israel (Isr J Health Policy Res 8:9, 2019). The study was a retrospective examination over a year of one inpatient ward in a psychiatric hospital. They found ne...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6792203/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31610806 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13584-019-0342-4 |
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author | Kohn, Yoav Barash, Igor Lubin, Gadi |
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description | Recently, Miodownik et al. reported in this journal the results of a study on seclusion and mechanical restraint of psychiatric patients in Israel (Isr J Health Policy Res 8:9, 2019). The study was a retrospective examination over a year of one inpatient ward in a psychiatric hospital. They found negative associations between length of use of coercive measures and the diagnosis of schizophrenia, being single, and the presence of academic nurses. Positive associations were found between length of use of coercive measures and the use of antipsychotic medications, violence towards oneself, and the use of restraint compared to seclusion. Interesting and important as they are, these results were obtained from data gathered in 2014. As the authors note, since then there has been a dramatic change in the official policy of the Israeli Ministry of Health on this topic and in the practice of seclusion and mechanical restraint in Israel. This commentary reviews and comments on the current situation. |
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spelling | pubmed-67922032019-10-21 Commentary: seclusion and mechanical restraint of psychiatric patients in Israel - an update Kohn, Yoav Barash, Igor Lubin, Gadi Isr J Health Policy Res Commentary Recently, Miodownik et al. reported in this journal the results of a study on seclusion and mechanical restraint of psychiatric patients in Israel (Isr J Health Policy Res 8:9, 2019). The study was a retrospective examination over a year of one inpatient ward in a psychiatric hospital. They found negative associations between length of use of coercive measures and the diagnosis of schizophrenia, being single, and the presence of academic nurses. Positive associations were found between length of use of coercive measures and the use of antipsychotic medications, violence towards oneself, and the use of restraint compared to seclusion. Interesting and important as they are, these results were obtained from data gathered in 2014. As the authors note, since then there has been a dramatic change in the official policy of the Israeli Ministry of Health on this topic and in the practice of seclusion and mechanical restraint in Israel. This commentary reviews and comments on the current situation. BioMed Central 2019-10-14 /pmc/articles/PMC6792203/ /pubmed/31610806 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13584-019-0342-4 Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Commentary Kohn, Yoav Barash, Igor Lubin, Gadi Commentary: seclusion and mechanical restraint of psychiatric patients in Israel - an update |
title | Commentary: seclusion and mechanical restraint of psychiatric patients in Israel - an update |
title_full | Commentary: seclusion and mechanical restraint of psychiatric patients in Israel - an update |
title_fullStr | Commentary: seclusion and mechanical restraint of psychiatric patients in Israel - an update |
title_full_unstemmed | Commentary: seclusion and mechanical restraint of psychiatric patients in Israel - an update |
title_short | Commentary: seclusion and mechanical restraint of psychiatric patients in Israel - an update |
title_sort | commentary: seclusion and mechanical restraint of psychiatric patients in israel - an update |
topic | Commentary |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6792203/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31610806 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13584-019-0342-4 |
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