Zuberi, Saman I.Sajid, AyeshaYousafzai, Abdul WahabBhutto, NailaKhan, Murad Moosa2020-01-022020-01-022011-02Zuberi, S. I., Sajid, A., Yousafzai, A. W., Bhutto, N., & Khan, M. M. (2011). Perceived coercion and need for hospital admission among psychiatric in-patients: figures from a Pakistani tertiary care hospital. International psychiatry : bulletin of the Board of International Affairs of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, 8(1), 14–16.https://hdl.handle.net/1805/21693In Pakistan, an increasing proportion of psychiatric patients present to community health services as crisis admissions, with their relatives as the main decision makers. Patients are bound to perceive this process as coercive. Farnham & James (2000) report that elements of coercion are found even in voluntary hospital admission, in the form of verbal persuasion, physical force and threats of commitment. Few patients consider hospitalisation justified and most view the process of admission negatively (Swartz et al, 2003; Katsakou & Priebe, 2006; Priebe et al, 2009).en-USPakistanPsychiatric patientsCommunity health servicesVerbal persuasionCoercionArticle