This project investigated the prevalence of persistent restraint and its predictors among individuals with a disability accessing residential services in Victoria. Taken together the results suggest that people who are administered antipsychotic medications or who have autism or difficulty communicating to others are at greater risk of being restrained or secluded in the long term and staff report that positive behaviour support is reducing the number of people subjected to restrictive interventions.
Download report (PDF)- Topics:
- Service providers
- Author:
- Professor Ben Richardson
- Source:
- Senior Practitioner - Disability
- Date published:
- Tue 31st Oct, 2017