Psychiatric News (8/19) reported, “Patients of color – particularly patients who identify as Black, multiracial, or another race – are significantly more likely than white patients to be subjected to involuntary psychiatric hospitalization,” investigators concluded in a study that “examined data from 4,393 patients whose initial admission to a psychiatric unit at a large hospital in Boston occurred between 2012 and 2018.” The findingswere published online Aug. 12 in the journal Psychiatric Services, a publication of the American Psychiatric Association.
Related Links:
— “Patients of Color Disproportionately Subjected to Involuntary Admission to Psychiatric Hospitals, Psychiatric News, August 19, 2022