Most common diagnoses requiring physical restriction of psychiatric patients: Humanity at the test

摘要

Introduction. Attitude about physical restriction has been changing through history. It has always been multidimensional approach, including ethic, medical and judicial aspect. Objective. The main aim was establishing distribution of physical restrictions of patients for the following years: 2006/07, 2007/08, 2008/09, 2009/10 and 2010/11. Methods. The research included patients that were hospitalized in the Special Hospital for Psychiatric Disorders “Dr. Laza Lazarevi?” in Belgrade from June 1, 2006 to June 1, 2011. Retrospective review of illness history of hospitalized female patients was done (350 in total) and records were formed containing data on physically restrained patients. Results. The largest number of referral diagnoses belonged to groups F20, F23 and F29; it was established that the number of physical restrictions was associated with referral diagnoses on the level of highly statistically significant difference (p