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| Year : 1993 | Volume
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| Issue : 2 | Page : 115-118 |
Restrained Psychiatric Outpatients : Necessity Justification or Violation of Human Rights?
Sayeed Akhtar1, T Jagawat2
1 Chief Medical Officer, Resident, Central Institute of Psychiatry, Kanke, Ranchi - 834 006, India
2 Resident, Central Institute of Psychiatry, Kanke, Ranchi - 834 006, India
Correspondence Address:
Sayeed Akhtar
Chief Medical Officer, Resident, Central Institute of Psychiatry, Kanke, Ranchi - 834 006
India
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PMID: 21743615 
Seventy patients were brought restrained to a Psychiatric outpatient department over a three month period, with the commonest site of restraint being the wrist. They were compared with controls and it was found that restrained patients were more likely to be younger, belonging to a lower socioeconomic status, from a rural background and were more likely to be diagnosed as manic. The significance of these findings and their implications for the human rights of the mentally ill are discussed.
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