Space for youth mental health—coercive measure use before and after architectural innovation at a department of child and adolescent psychiatry

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‘Space for youth mental health—coercive measure use before and after architectural innovation at a department of child and adolescent psychiatry’

Open Access paper from the CAMH journal

Influence of architectural features in child and adolescent psychiatric wards on coercive measure use has not been investigated so far. We aimed to assess the effect of altering the physical environment of an adolescent psychiatric inpatient unit on the proportion and frequency of adolescents experiencing mechanical coercive measures.

Authors: Klara Czernin, Anselm Bründlmayer, Josef S. Baumgartner, Paul L. Plener

First published: 12 December 2023

https://doi.org/10.1111/camh.12690

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