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Patients’ Perceptions of Seclusion: A Qualitative Investigation

open access: yesJournal of Advanced Nursing, 2000
Twelve patients receiving acute in-patient psychiatric care in Queensland, Australia, participated in semi-structured interviews to elicit their perceptions of seclusion.
Carol Windsor, Tom Meehan
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Staff and Patient Perceptions of Seclusion: Has Anything Changed?

open access: yesJournal of Advanced Nursing, 2004
Background Seclusion continues to be widely used in the management of disturbed behaviour in hospitalized patients. While early research on the topic highlighted significant differences in staff and patient perceptions, there are few recent data to ...
Tom Meehan
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Seclusion in psychiatry

Nursing Standard, 1999
The subject of seclusion will always generate professional, legal and moral debate. Lawrence Savage and Emad Salib examined the continuing and regular use of seclusion in a secure mental health unit, and suggest that the seclusion of some patients may continue to be a safe and effective intervention to control incidents of disturbed behaviour.
L, Savage, E, Salib
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Seclusion

British Journal of Psychiatry, 1989
Seclusion is a commonly used management technique in some areas of psychiatric practice. However, its theoretical and empirical underpinnings are greatly wanting in many respects. This paper reviews the present state of our knowledge and ignorance about seclusion, and suggests some strategies for much-needed research.
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Seclusion

The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1983
Patterns of locked seclusion use were reviewed on an inpatient service caring for both voluntary and involuntary patients. Hospital records of 313 sequentially admitted patients were studied, comparing those patients requiring one or more episode of seclusion with those never secluded.
J M, Oldham   +2 more
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Seclusion: A Patient Perspective

Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 2020
The appropriate treatment of mentally unwell, aggressive patients has challenged psychiatry for centuries. Seclusion is practiced worldwide, but concerns remain regarding its appropriateness and lack of alternatives. Patients generally report seclusion as a negative experience, though there is a paucity of literature exploring this in detail.
Silvia Allikmets   +3 more
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Seclusion: uses and complications

American Journal of Psychiatry, 1978
A total of 7.2% of the patients in a private psychiatric hospital were placed in seclusion during a one-year study. These 63 patients had a more frequent diagnosis of schizophrenia and manic-depressive illness, manic type, than a comparison group. Significant intergroup differences in age and length of hospitalization became insignificant when the ...
M R, Mattson, M H, Sacks
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The Use of Seclusion

Medicine, Science and the Law, 1985
Seclusion remains a widely used technique of emergency management in psychiatric institutions. Theoretical justification for its employment includes the need for safety and containment and decreases in stimulation, both sensory and interpersonal. Little evidence testifies to its effectiveness. The literature on patterns of seclusion is reviewed, as are
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Seclusion: The perspective of nurses

International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 2009
Knowledge of how nurses experience the process of secluding a patient can be useful in improving the quality of patient care and in the prevention of work related stress in nurses. This study describes personal experiences of nurses throughout the seclusion process.
J E L, VanDerNagel   +3 more
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Patterns of Seclusion

The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1981
The clinical use of seclusion was studied prospectively on two acute treatment units of a university hospital. The incidence, frequency, duration, precipitant, and type of seclusion were documented for 59 secluded patients through 107 episodes and compared to 159 nonsecluded controls on a variety of demographic, diagnostic, and legal variables ...
P H, Soloff, S M, Turner
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