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The British Journal of Psychiatry (2006) 188: 486-487. doi: 10.1192/bjp.bp.105.008466
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Views of child psychiatrists on physical contact with patients

AILEEN BLOWER, MRCPsych, RODDY LANDER, ANNA CRAWFORD, RUTH ELLIOT, CLARE McNULTY, CHRISTOPHER HOLMES, PAVAN SRIREDDY, MBChB, MICHELLE MULCAHY, MBChB and HELEN MINNIS, MRCPsych, PhD

Section of Psychological Medicine, University of Glasgow, Caledonia House, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow, UK

Correspondence: Dr Helen Minnis, Section of Psychological Medicine, University of Glasgow, Caledonia House, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow G3 8SJ, UK. Tel: +44 (0) 141 201 9239; fax: +44 (1)141 201 0620; e-mail: h.minnis{at}clinmed.gla.ac.uk

Declaration of interest None. Funding detailed in Acknowledgements.

The appropriateness and therapeutic value of physical contact with children is under increasing scrutiny. We conducted a postal questionnaire and telephone survey of consultant child and adolescent psychiatrists within Great Britain to investigate attitudes of specialists towards physical contact with their patients in different clinical contexts. Here we report that psychiatrists tend to restrict physical contact to the minimum essential for patient comfort or safety. Decision-making about contact is primarily influenced by professional experience and training. This conservative approachto physical contact with patients has implications for clinical practice and requires to be better informed by evidence.


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