Implementation of guidelines on prevention of coercion and violence (PreVCo) in psychiatry: a multicentre randomised controlled trial

Reduction of coercion in psychiatric hospitals: how can this be achieved?

“…In the current issue of The Lancet Regional Health – Europe , Steinert and colleagues present the PreVCo study, 5 a two-armed multisite Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT) from Germany that investigated the efficacy of the implementation of recommendations derived from the 2018 high-quality guidelines of the German Association of Psychiatry (DGPPN) for reduction of coercion in psychiatry. 6 Altogether, 54 psychiatric wards were included in the study and randomly allocated to an intervention and a waiting control group.…”