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T1 “They Don’t Know About Suffering”: Reasons from Physicians and Users for the Use of Coercion After a Suicide Attempt in Latin America
A1 Agudelo Hernández, Felipe
A1 Plata Casas, Laura Ines
A1 Delgado Reyes, Andrés Camilo
K1 Suicide attempt
K1 Coercion
K1 Human rights
K1 Mental health services
K1 Suicidio
K1 Suicide
AB The use of coercive practices worsens recovery processes in mental health. These practices have various forms of presentationthat must be identified to incorporate a rights-based approach into care processes. The aim was to describe and analyzethe reasons perceived by physicians who employed coercive practices and by the individuals on whom these practices wereemployed, following a suicide attempt in Caldas, Colombia, in 2023 and 2024. A qualitative, transversal, and descriptiveresearch design was used. Data collection was conducted in two phases: in-depth interviews with individuals who hadattempted suicide were carried out between January and December 2024, and interviews with healthcare professionals wereconducted between November 2024 and January 2025. A total of 30 participants were included, all of whom had attemptedsuicide and for whom coercive measures had been taken at a clinical level. In addition, 22 medical professionals who treatedone of the 30 participants during their suicide attempt were included. Through content analysis, the interviews were dividedinto two themes. The first, based on interviews with individuals who had attempted suicide, was titled Reasons perceivedby people using health services after a suicide attempt and comprised three categories: Lack of knowledge, Lack of willingnessto help, and Obligation. The second theme, Reasons perceived by medical professionals, comprised categories suchas Coercion as a primary resource, Coercion in medical training, and Coercion as medical protocol. Coercive measures,even though they are protocolled by health professionals, cause great suffering and hinder the recovery of people who haveexperienced coercive practices in mental health.
PB Springer
SN 2365-1792
YR 2026
FD 2026-05
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10259/12206
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10259/12206
LA eng
NO Open access funding provided by FEDER European Funds and the Junta de Castilla y León under the Research and Innovation Strategy for Smart Specialization (RIS3) of Castilla y León 2021-2027.
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 02-oct-2026