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Clear universal clinical and ethical guidelines must be developed to prevent and reduce coercive interventions in various clinical mental health settings aiming at promoting evidenced-based and trauma-informed care
  1. Akhtar Ebrahimi Ghassemi1,2
  1. 1Independent Researcher, Rochester, New York, USA
  2. 2Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester, New Hampshire, USA
  1. Correspondence to Dr Akhtar Ebrahimi Ghassemi; aghassemi11{at}gmail.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebnurs-2024-104034

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    Commentary on: Haines S, Stanton R, Anderson C, Welsh A. Ethical challenges for nurses delivering coercive interventions in community mental health setting: a scoping review. Int J Mental Health Nurse. 2023; 33: 750-759. doi: 10.1111/inm.13290.

    Implications for practice and research

    • To prevent and reduce coercive interventions in mental health and community settings, collaborative and continued efforts should target creating policies and ethical and best clinical practice guidelines.

    • Future research should focus on developing clear, consistent and effective global policies and ethical guidelines to prevent and reduce coercive behaviour in clinical and community settings, especially in psychiatry.

    Context

    While the percentages of coercive interventions in psychiatry vary in different countries and clinical settings, global initiatives are increasingly aimed at preventing and reducing these interventions in the mental health and community …

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    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.