Psychiatric restraints must be loosened. However, it is necessary to provide staff with other coercive tools, believes the Danish Minister of the Interior Affairs and Health, Sophie Løhde (V). The statement faces opposition.
Combatting coercion with coercion
Psychiatric restraints must be loosened. However, it is necessary to provide staff with other coercive tools, believes the Danish Minister of the Interior Affairs and Health, Sophie Løhde (V). The statement faces opposition.
Combatting coercion with coercion
The Danish Health Authority assesses that, as a rule, patients should not be restrained for longer than four hours. In return, other methods can be considered. Foto: Peter Hove Olesen
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With a rather controversial announcement, the Danish Minister of the Interior Affairs and Health Sophie Løhde (Venstre, a center-right party branded on traditional liberal values) has declared her readiness to introduce new forms of coercion against patients in Danish psychiatry.
The goal is paradoxically to limit the most intrusive methods, particularly the use of restraints, which are still widely used in psychiatric hospitals. Over 1,000 people are restrained each year, and for some, it happens multiple times.
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