Nearly a quarter of child and adolescent admissions to psychiatric hospitals are involuntary, a new study suggests. Researchers also found young black people were almost three times as likely as young white people to be admitted to a psychiatric hospital against their will.
But they say the reasons for these differences remain unclear. Experts analysed social and clinical factors associated with psychiatric hospital admission of children and adolescents, and found that 23.6 per cent were admitted to hospital without their consent under mental health legislation.
The study suggests patients involuntarily admitted to psychiatric hospital were more likely to have a diagnosis of psychosis, substance misuse, or intellectual disability than those
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