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Table 2 Perceptions about conceptual requirements

From: Requirements for the implementation of open door policies in acute psychiatry from a mental health professionals’ and patients’ view: a qualitative interview study

 

Psychiatrists

Nurses

Patients

Observation

+ less coercive than a closed door

− long observation can create tension

+ less coercive than a closed door

− long observation is exhausting

+ good balance between care and autonomy

Door Watch

+ effectively prevents most absconding

− not all patients can be prevented from leaving

+ effectively prevents most absconding

− very strenuous

− safety risk

− feeling too much responsibility

+ effectively prevents most absconding

+ conversation partner on the ward

+ better monitoring of dangerous patients

− feeling of being watched

Seclusion

+ affects less patients than a closed ward

+ affects less patients than a closed ward

+ less traumatic than mechanical restraint

  1. +: positive; −: negative