Timeframe: 01 January 2006 – 30 June 2006.
Brief Description
The project will be concluded with the following activities:
- The data that have been collected and reviewed on an ongoing basis on one central webserver during the phase of data gathering, will once more be checked for missing information and inconsistencies.
- Statistical analyses (descriptive statistics, correlational methods, analyses of variance, regression analyses, path analysis) will be conducted in order to be able to answer the research questions.
- First in national workshops, then in a European one, these findings will be integrated with expert reports on legal background as well as users' views into guidelines for best practise of coercive measures in psychiatry.
- A list of items found suitable to describe, document and compare coercive measures on a cross-national level will be identified and published in a scientific journal.
- All of the study's main findings will be presented in national and international scientific journals as well as on national and international scientific conferences.
- Each centre will host and carry out one national conference on "Involuntary Admissions to Psychiatric Hospitals and Coercive Measures during Inpatient Treatment", the co-ordinating centre will carry out one European conference on this topic.
- Primary care physicians will be informed of the study’s results via articles in their professional journals.
- European, regional and national patient organisations and family member initiatives will receive written information oriented toward their specific needs.
- Detailed information on the study's findings will be provided to national and European legal bodies and political institutions (esp. members of the parliaments and the ministries of justice and health affairs) responsible for defining the mental health acts or the respective legal regulation, including the World Health Organisation (WHO).
- Brochures as well as written articles and other presentations in national and international media will be prepared for specific interest groups, e.g. psychiatrists, users and legal experts.
- On a regular basis, an Internet newsletter will be widely distributed to health care professionals, users' and relatives' organisations, decision makers with regard to health care policy and the media.
