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Ethnicity and coercion among involuntarily detained psychiatric in-patients

  • Olive Bennewith (a1), Tim Amos (a1), Glyn Lewis (a1), Christina Katsakou (a2), Til Wykes (a3), Richard Morriss (a4) and Stefan Priebe (a5)...

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We assessed whether adult Black and minority ethnic (BME) patients detained for involuntary psychiatric treatment experienced more coercion than similar White patients. We found no evidence of this from patient interviews or from hospital records. The area (mental health trust) where people were treated was strongly associated with both the experience of coercion and the recording of a coercive measure in their records. Regarding charges of institutional racism in psychiatry, this study highlights the importance of investigating the role of area characteristics when assessing the relationship between ethnicity and patient management.

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Olive Bennewith, Academic Unit of Psychiatry, Cotham House, Cotham Hill, Bristol BS6 6JL, UK. Email: O.M.Bennewith@bristol.ac.uk

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The study was funded by a grant from the Policy Research Programme of the UK Department of Health, Commission No. 0230072, and supported by the National Institute for Health Research UK Mental Health Research Network. The project was coordinated by the Unit for Social and Community Psychiatry, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, which received funding from the Department of Health. The views expressed here are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Department of Health.

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