Analyse phénoménologique des expériences de soutien à l’exercice des droits en soins psychiatriques

Patients perceived coercion when they were forced to accept unit transfers and medication without any legal justification.

“or when they were forced to accept unit transfers and medication without any legal justification [152].”

Patients described restrictions such as prohibitions on smoking, coffee, or going outside, the inability to use a phone, and needing staff permission for basic needs as profound losses of control.

“Patients described restrictions such as prohibitions on smoking, coffee, or going outside [102,142], the inability to use a phone [152], and needing staff permission for basic needs [114,141] as profound losses of control.”

Rigid rules and routines were the most consistently reported as restrictive in the literature.

“it was the rigid rules and routines that were most consistently reported as restrictive in the literature [51,89,102,104,114,141,142,145,149,152,153,161].”

These studies shed light on how structural factors such as rigid ward rules, locked units, lack of privacy, resource scarcity, and dehumanizing practices deeply influence individuals' perceptions of coercion.

“For instance, these studies shed light on how structural factors such as rigid ward rules, locked units, lack of privacy, resource scarcity, and dehumanizing practices deeply influence individuals’ perceptions of coercion [51,89,102,104,114,141,142,145,149,152,153,161].”