@article{ref1,
title="Patient and staff perspectives on the use of seclusion",
journal="Australasian psychiatry",
year="2008",
author="El-Badri, Selim and Mellsop, Graham",
volume="16",
number="4",
pages="248-252",
abstract="OBJECTIVES: This paper investigates the perceptions and experience of patients and staff on the use of seclusion in psychiatric services. METHOD: A purpose designed questionnaire was distributed to staff and patients in a general adult mental health service. RESULTS: Staff and patients both attributed more negative than positive feelings to patients' experience of seclusion. CONCLUSIONS: Monitoring and evaluation of the use of seclusion may be insufficient to prevent or ameliorate its emotional impact. More comfortable alternatives to seclusion need to be utilized whenever possible.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1039-8562",
doi="10.1080/10398560802027302",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10398560802027302"
}