Attitudinal variance among patients, next of kin and health care professionals towards the use of containment measures in three psychiatric hospitals in Switzerland

Table 1 Characteristics of the three study sites selected

	Area	Bed capacity	Number of admissions	Police involvement at absconding (%)	Ward door policy	Prevalence of coercive measures
						Rates of involuntary admission (%)	Episodes of Coercion (n)	Episodes of Seclusion (n)	Episodes of Restraint (n)		Episodes of Coercive medication (n)
						Rates of involuntary admission (%)	Episodes of Coercion (n)	Episodes of Seclusion (n)	physical	mechanical	Episodes of Coercive medication (n)
Zurich^a	Urban	220	1699	9.4	Mostly closed	36	514	344	No data	11	159
Muensingen^b	Rural	251	2632	19.6	Mostly open	29.5	1030	632	No data	203	195
Monthey^b	Rural	99	1440	8.4	Open^c	12.6	178	Not used	17	Not used	161

^aData from January to June 2016; ^bData from 2016, ^c Between 07:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m.

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