Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints

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Background Symptoms of mental disorder that impair decision-making capacity in inpatient psychiatric units increase the ethical tension between patient autonomy and paternalistic responsibility. Practices such as involuntary admission, compulsory treatment, and physical restraint further intensify this tension, while…

Workplace violence (WPV) in psychiatric settings is a global crisis, yet its true prevalence is often obscured by systemic underreporting. This study analyzes officially documented incidents of violence in a psychiatric hospital to uncover underlying patterns of aggression and to estimate the magnitude of this reporti…

AIM: To determine the association between nurses' ethical behaviours for protecting patients' rights and their competencies in delivering patient-centred care. DESIGN: A cross-sectional, descriptive, and correlational design was used. METHODS: This study involved 397 nurses from diverse healthcare institutions across…

BACKGROUND: Despite advancements in dementia care policies, people living with dementia continue experiencing significant unmet needs, while health and social care professionals encounter complex ethical challenges shaped by healthcare systems, cultural attitudes, and resource availability. OBJECTIVE: This cross-count…

Objective The standard one-injection start (OIS) regimen of aripiprazole once-monthly (AOM) requires a 14-day oral overlap, which may present practical challenges in routine care. This study evaluated whether the accelerated two-injection start (TIS) strategy, which eliminates oral overlap, affects 1-year real-world o…

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Schizophrenia spectrum disorders are characterized not only by positive and negative symptoms but also by persistent cognitive biases that contribute to the formation and maintenance of delusional beliefs. Among these biases, jumping to conclusions, overconfidence in errors, attributional distortions, and resistance t…

Emergency surgery is characterized by clinical uncertainty, time pressure, evolving information, physiological instability, and substantial variability in available resources. In this setting, adverse outcomes may occur despite timely and appropriate care and should not automatically be interpreted as evidence of prof…

Aim: To examine the relationship between the ethical attitudes of psychiatric nurses and their knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding physical restraintMethod: This study has employed a descriptive cross-sectional design. The researchers recruited 146 nurses who work in psychiatric units. Convenience sampling m…

Ward atmosphere is a critical component of psychiatric inpatient care, shaping perceptions of safety, autonomy, therapeutic engagement, and recovery. While extensively studied internationally, little is known about patients' perceptions of ward climate in Türkiye. This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted w…

Objective: The second victim phenomenon describes the psychological and professional distress experienced by healthcare workers following adverse events or complications.Despite growing international recognition, empirical data on this phenomenon among surgical specialties remain scarce.This study examined the frequen…