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Veikko Pelto-Piri*, Lars Kjellin, Ulrika Hylén, Emanuele Valenti, Stefan Priebe
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
OBJECTIVES: The objective of the study was to investigate how mental health professionals describe and reflect upon different forms of informal coercion.
RESULTS: In a deductive qualitative content analysis of focus group interviews, several examples of persuasion, interpersonal leverage, inducements, and threats were found. Persuasion was sometimes described as being more like a negotiation. Some participants worried about that the use of interpersonal leverage and inducements risked to pass into blackmail in some situations. In a following inductive analysis, three more categories of informal coercion was found: cheating, using a disciplinary style and referring to rules and routines. Participants also described situations of coercion from other stakeholders: relatives and other authorities than psychiatry. The results indicate that informal coercion includes forms that are not obviously arranged in a hierarchy, and that its use is complex with a variety of pathways between different forms before treatment is accepted by the patient or compulsion is imposed.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 787 (2019) |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | BMC Research Notes |
Volume | 12 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2 Dec 2019 |
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review