Perceived coercion in psychiatric inpatients: a validation study of the Romanian-language version of the Admission Experience Survey
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The MacArthur Admission Experience Survey was developed to evaluate perceived coercion in psychiatric inpatients and comprises of three subscales: "Perceived coercion", "Negative pressures" and "Voice". The present study aims to evaluate the psychometric properties of a Romanian language version of the AES (R-AES) and to identify predictors for higher perceived coercion. We developed the R-AES using a translation/back-translation procedure and administered it to 137 patients admitted to the "Profesor Doctor Alexandru Obregia" psychiatric hospital in Bucharest, Romania. Discriminatory power was evaluated by comparing the scores of voluntarily and involuntarily admitted patients. The R-AES showed satisfactory internal consistency (Crohnbach's alpha = 0.92). Principal components analysis disclosed a three-factor solution explaining 69.1% of variance. Factor components roughly corresponded to the original subscales. Higher scores were associated with involuntary admission, objective coercive measures, younger age, frequent past hospitalisations, treatment non-compliance, psychosis, mania, greater disease severity, aggression, and presentation by police or ambulance.
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Police transportation was perceived as highly coercive and traumatizing.
“Police transportation was also perceived as highly coercive and traumatizing [121,155].”
From Factors Associated with Perceived Coercion in Adults Receiving Psychiatric Care: A Scoping Review (2025) · cites this paper as [155]
The Discussion (page unavailable) reports that patients brought to the hospital by police felt the most coerced, supporting the coercion part of the claim. The paper does not report that they perceived police transportation as traumatizing. (LLM, conf=0.88)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredYounger age was associated with perceived coercion at admission among all patients in another study.
“and among all patients in another [155].”
From Factors Associated with Perceived Coercion in Adults Receiving Psychiatric Care: A Scoping Review (2025) · cites this paper as [155]
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- Authors
- Păun, R.-M., Pavel, N. A., Matei, V.-P., & Tudose, C.
- Affiliations
- Department of Psychiatry, ‘Carol Davila’ University of Medicine and Pharmacy
- Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy (RO)
- Corresponding author
- Matei, Valentin-Petre
- Venue
- Psychiatry, Psychology and Law
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2024-09-08
- Volume
- 33
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 22-31
- ISSN
- 1321-8719 (ISSN-L)
- 1934-1687
- PMC
- PMC12857718
- OpenAlex
- W4402384277
- Cited by
- 2
- References
- 24
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 1
- FWCI
- 1.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- dx.doi.org
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- Locations
- Psychiatry Psychology and Law (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychiatric care and mental health services
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Electroconvulsive Therapy Studies
- Keywords
- perceived coercion, psychiatric inpatients, psychometric validation, involuntary admission, treatment non-adherence, psychosis, mania, aggression, hospitalization
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