07 Sep Coercion in inpatient psychiatric treatment during the Covid-19 pandemic in the Rhineland region, Germany

We performed a retrospective analysis of the use of coersive measures in a large psychiatric hospital association in Northrhine-Westphalia (NRW), Germany, before and during the Covid-19 pandemic. We found an overall decrease in case numbers, but increases of cases with involuntary hospitalisation according to the...