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Mental health patients perceive observation as the least restrictive intervention
  1. Renjulal Yesodharan1,
  2. Vishnu Renjith1,2
  1. 1Manipal College of Nursing, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India
  2. 2School of Nursing & Midwifery, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
  1. Correspondence to Mr Renjulal Yesodharan; renjulal.y{at}manipal.edu

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Commentary on - Lindekilde CR, Pedersen ML, Birkeland SF, Hvidhjelm J, Baker J, Gildberg FA. Mental health patients' preferences regarding restrictive interventions: an integrative review. J Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs. 2024 May 2. doi: 10.1111/jpm.13057.

Implications for practice and research

  • Mental health patients perceive observation as the least restrictive intervention. Mental health professionals should consider environment, communication and duration that could influence patient preferences for restrictive interventions.

  • More research is needed on developing a global definition for restrictive interventions and also to understand patient preferences and views regarding various restrictive interventions.

Context

Philippe Pinel has been honoured in history for his ‘humane treatment’ and ‘unchaining the mentally ill’.1 However, the use of restrictive interventions (RIs) in psychiatric hospitals continues in the 21st century. Ensuring safety for self and others is one of the major reasons for using these RIs.2 Everyone will surely …

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  • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

  • Competing interests None declared.

  • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.