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Table 2 Frequency of aggressive behaviour and coercive measures before and after conceptual change in patients with personality disorders [ICD-10 F 6]

From: Successful interventions on an organisational level to reduce violence and coercive interventions in in-patients with adjustment disorders and personality disorders

  1.11.2004–31.10.2005 1.11.2005–31.10.2006 Change
Treatment episodes N = 127 N = 147 + 15.7%
affected by mechanical restraint 6.3% 3.4% -46%
affected by seclusion 15.0% 2.7% -82%
[p < .001]
Mean duration of mechanical restraint 3.7 h 12.4 h + 230%
[p < .01]
Mean duration of seclusion 17.0 h 8.1 h -52%
Mean number of any kind of coercive interventions per affected patient 4.9 2.3 -53%
Total number of coercive interventions 120 17 -86%
Suicide attempt1 10.0% 7.6% -24%
Violent threat1 5.0% 4.5% -10%
Violence against objects1 5.0% 4.5% -10%
Violence against persons1 7.0% 3.8% -45.7%
Involuntary commitment1 11.0% 3.8% -65.5%
[p < .05]
  1. 1 reduced n available for this item: 100 before/132 after intervention