Table 1.
Demographic, Clinical and Intervention-setting characteristics
| Variable | N | Coercive experience | Statistics | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No coercive experience N (%)/Mean | Seclusion and forced medication N (%)/Mean | Seclusion only N (%)/mean | χ2/F | df | P | ||
| Demographic and clinical characteristics | |||||||
| Gender | 158 | ||||||
| Male | 73 (46%) | 21 (33%) | 24 (62%) | 28 (51%) | 8.8 | 2 | 0.012 |
| Female | 85 (54%) | 43 (67%) | 15 (38%) | 27 (49%) | |||
| Legal status upon admission | 156 | ||||||
| Involuntary | 39 (25%) | 4 (6%) | 15 (40%) | 20 (37%) | 20.4 | 2 | 0.000 |
| Voluntary | 117 (75%) | 60 (94%) | 23 (60%) | 34 (63%) | |||
| Patients and their diagnosis | 142 | ||||||
| Psychotic disorder | 40 | 7 (17%) | 12 (30%) | 21(53%) | 13.83 | 2 | 0.001 |
| Mood disorder | 44 | 19 (43%) | 14 (32%) | 11 (25%) | 3.36 | 2 | 0.186 |
| Personality disorder | 36 | 16 (45%) | 8 (22%) | 12 (33%) | 0.18 | 2 | 0.916 |
| Addiction | 43 | 18 (42%) | 9 (21%) | 16 (37%) | 0.37 | 2 | 0.833 |
| PTSD | 11 | 3 (27%) | 3 (27%) | 5 (46%) | 1.05 | 2 | 0.59 |
| Mean age | 156 | 40 | 37 | 40 | 0.8 | 2/153 | 0.45 |
| Mean GAF score | 134 | 49 | 51 | 51 | 0.4 | 2/131 | 0.7 |
| Mean sum score on perceived coercion scale | 128 | 34 | 42 | 37 | 5.7 | 2/125 | 0.004 |
| Preferred coercive measure | 161 | ||||||
| Seclusion | 69 (43%) | 19 (30%) | 15 (38%) | 35 (60%) | 12.08 | 2 | 0.002 |
| Forced medication | 92 (57%) | 45 (70%) | 24 (62%) | 23 (40%) | |||
| Intervention-setting characteristics | |||||||
| Subjective judgment of duration of seclusion | 80 | ||||||
| Acceptable | 48 (60%) | N/A* | 13 (42%) | 35 (71%) | 6.88 | 1 | 0.008 |
| Too long | 32 (40%) | 18 (58%) | 14 (29%) | ||||
| Experienced improvement from the measure | 60 | ||||||
| Yes | 43 (72%) | N/A* | 13 (52%) | 30 (86%) | 8.16 | 1 | 0.005 |
| No | 17 (28%) | 12 (48%) | 5 (14%) | ||||
| Received explanation of the reason during the measure | 82 | ||||||
| Yes | 68 (83%) | N/A* | 27 (82%) | 41 (84%) | 0.83 | 1 | 0.527 |
| No | 14 (17%) | 6 (18%) | 8 (16%) | ||||
| Satisfied with the quality of contact/care during the measure | 94 | ||||||
| Yes | 68 (72%) | N/A* | 23 (62%) | 45 (79%) | 3.16 | 1 | 0.062 |
| No | 26 (28%) | 14 (38%) | 12 (21%) | ||||
| Approval of the measure | 94 | ||||||
| Yes | 65 (69%) | N/A* | 25 (66%) | 40 (71%) | 0.337 | 1 | 0.36 |
| No | 29 (31%) | 13 (34%) | 16 (29%) | ||||
| Debriefed after the measure | 87 | ||||||
| Yes | 58 (67%) | N/A* | 25 (71%) | 33 (64%) | 0.59 | 1 | 0.296 |
| No | 29 (33%) | 10 (29%) | 19 (36%) | ||||
*N/A = not applicable