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  1. Patient experiences of coercion in mental healthcare: systematic review and metasummary of qualitative studies from 1991 to 2025

    Article • BJPsych Open, August 2026, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  2. Availability and restrictiveness of community treatment orders across 33 European countries

    Article • BJPsych Open, June 2026, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa, Deborah Aluh

  3. Temporal patterns in compulsory psychiatric admissions: a four-year, nationwide registry study from Norwegian acute wards

    Article • Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, May 2026, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  4. Care quality from family carers’ vantage point: a secondary qualitative analysis of experiential accounts through the lens of epistemic injustice

    Article • International Journal of Care and Caring, May 2026, Policy Press

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  5. Abolition of coercion in psychiatry on the horizon? A descriptive ecologic data study from six European countries.

    Article • European Psychiatry, February 2026, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  6. A collaborative primary and mental health care model with psychologist and psychiatrist working in GP practices: process evaluation of the implementation, challenges, and sustainability

    Article • BMC Health Services Research, September 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  7. Study protocol for Controversies in psychiatry – antipsychotics: Long term outcomes and causal modelling of antipsychotic treatment using Norwegian Registry data

    Article • F1000Research, July 2025, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  8. Helsepersonells perspektiver på mulighetsrommet for pårørendeinvolvering for hjemmeboende eldre med psykisk helse- og/eller rusproblematikk: en kvalitativ studie

    Article • Tidsskrift for velferdsforskning, July 2025, Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  9. Can primary mental health services impact levels of involuntary admissions? A cluster-RCT of the ReCoN intervention

    Article • Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, April 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  10. Seeking a care–life balance: family carers’ perspectives on how quality of life can improve when caring for an older person living with dementia

    Article • International Journal of Care and Caring, November 2024, Policy Press

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  11. Legislation and policy for involuntary mental healthcare across countries in the FOSTREN network: rationale, development of mapping survey and protocol

    Article • BJPsych Open, September 2024, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa, Deborah Aluh

  12. “It’s hard to say anything definitive about what severity really is”: lay conceptualisations of severity in a healthcare context

    Article • BMC Health Services Research, April 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  13. Something Happened with the Way We Work: Evaluating the Implementation of the Reducing Coercion in Norway (ReCoN) Intervention in Primary Mental Health Care

    Article • Healthcare, April 2024, MDPI AG

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  14. Medication-Free Treatment in Mental Health Care How Does It Differ from Traditional Treatment?

    Article • Patient Preference and Adherence, February 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  15. Long term outcomes and causal modelling of compulsory inpatient and outpatient mental health care using Norwegian registry data: Protocol for a controversies in psychiatry research project

    Article • International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, July 2023, Wiley

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  16. The relationship between area levels of involuntary psychiatric care and patient outcomes: a longitudinal national register study from Norway

    Article • BMC Psychiatry, February 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  17. Geographical variation in compulsory hospitalisation – ethical challenges

    Article • BMC Health Services Research, December 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  18. Use of compulsory community treatment in mental healthcare: An integrative review of stakeholders’ opinions

    Article • Frontiers in Psychiatry, November 2022, Frontiers

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  19. The ReCoN intervention: a co-created comprehensive intervention for primary mental health care aiming to prevent involuntary admissions

    Article • BMC Health Services Research, July 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  20. Impact of introducing capacity-based mental health legislation on the use of community treatment orders in Norway: case registry study

    Article • BJPsych Open, January 2022, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  21. Coercion in Psychiatry: Epidemiology, Effects and Prevention

    Article • January 2022, Frontiers

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  22. Service Characteristics and Geographical Variation in Compulsory Hospitalisation: An Exploratory Random Effects Within–Between Analysis of Norwegian Municipalities, 2015–2018

    Article • Frontiers in Psychiatry, December 2021, Frontiers

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  23. Between No Help and Coercion: Toward Referral to Involuntary Psychiatric Admission. A Qualitative Interview Study of Stakeholders' Perspectives

    Article • Frontiers in Psychiatry, August 2021, Frontiers

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  24. The Introduction of Medication-Free Mental Health Services in Norway: An Analysis of the Framing and Impact of Arguments From Different Standpoints

    Article • Frontiers in Psychiatry, July 2021, Frontiers

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  25. Why Service Users Choose Medication-Free Psychiatric Treatment: A Mixed-Method Study of User Accounts

    Article • Patient Preference and Adherence, July 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa, Professor Ole André Solbakken

  26. Measuring the level of compulsory hospitalisation in mental health care: The performance of different measures across areas and over time

    Article • International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, May 2021, Wiley

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  27. Is health literacy of family carers associated with carer burden, quality of life, and time spent on informal care for older persons living with dementia?

    Article • PLOS One, November 2020, PLOS

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  28. Professionals’ perspectives on factors within primary mental health services that can affect pathways to involuntary psychiatric admissions

    Article • International Journal of Mental Health Systems, November 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  29. Collaborative care for mental health: a qualitative study of the experiences of patients and health professionals

    Article • BMC Health Services Research, September 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  30. Cost and quality-of-life impacts of community treatment orders (CTOs) for patients with psychosis: economic evaluation of the OCTET trial

    Article • Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, July 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  31. Compulsory treatment in patients’ homes in the Netherlands: what do mental health professionals think of this?

    Article • BMC Psychiatry, February 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  32. Coercion in Mental Health Care – Position Statement of the World Association of Social Psychiatry

    Article • World Social Psychiatry, January 2020, Medknow

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  33. Erlang could have told you so—A case study of health policy without maths

    Article • Health Policy, December 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  34. Dementia and patient safety in the community: a qualitative study of family carers’ protective practices and implications for services

    Article • BMC Health Services Research, September 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  35. Out-patient commitment order use in Norway: incidence and prevalence rates, duration and use of mental health services from the Norwegian Outpatient Commitment Study

    Article • BJPsych Open, September 2019, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  36. Applying the triple bottom line of sustainability to healthcare research—a feasibility study

    Article • International Journal for Quality in Health Care, May 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  37. The use of outpatient commitment in Norway: Who are the patients and what does it involve?

    Article • International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, January 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  38. Quality of life and service satisfaction in outpatients with severe or non-severe mental illness diagnoses

    Article • Quality of Life Research, November 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  39. How clinicians make decisions about CTOs in ACT: a qualitative study

    Article • International Journal of Mental Health Systems, September 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  40. A cross-sectional study of experienced coercion in adolescent mental health inpatients

    Article • BMC Health Services Research, May 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  41. Responsibilities with conflicting priorities: a qualitative study of ACT providers’ experiences with community treatment orders

    Article • BMC Health Services Research, April 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Rolf Wynn, Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  42. Effectiveness of Community Treatment Orders? Two Studies With Unusual Outcomes and an Atypical Population

    Article • Psychiatric Services, December 2017, American Psychiatric Association

    Professor Steve R Kisely, Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  43. Psychometric validation of a multi-dimensional capability instrument for outcome measurement in mental health research (OxCAP-MH)

    Article • Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, December 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  44. Randomised controlled trials and outpatient commitment

    Article • The Lancet Psychiatry, December 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  45. Carer involvement in compulsory out-patient psychiatric care in England

    Article • BMC Health Services Research, November 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  46. To what extent is patient-rated quality of life associated with continuity of care, therapeutic relationships and unmet need for services? A study of outpatient mental health service users in Norway

    Article • International Journal of Integrated Care, October 2017, Ubiquity Press, Ltd.

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  47. The development, validation, and feasibility of the Experienced Coercion Scale.

    Article • Psychological Assessment, October 2017, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  48. Mental health, coercion and family caregiving: issues from the international literature

    Article • BJPsych International, August 2017, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  49. Why we need to understand service variation in compulsion

    Article • The Lancet Psychiatry, August 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  50. A prospective, quantitative study of mental health act assessments in England following the 2007 amendments to the 1983 act: did the changes fulfill their promise?

    Article • BMC Psychiatry, July 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  51. Community treatment orders: Are they useful?

    Article • BJPsych Advances, July 2017, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  52. Associations between compulsory community treatment and continuity of care in a three year follow-up of the Oxford Community Treatment Order Trial (OCTET) cohort

    Article • BMC Psychiatry, April 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  53. Assessments of Need for Treatment and Danger in Decisions About Community Treatment Orders

    Article • European Psychiatry, April 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  54. Exploring professionals' understanding, interpretation and implementation of the ‘appropriate medical treatment test’ in the 2007 amendment of the Mental Health Act 1983

    Article • BJPsych Open, January 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  55. Factorial structure and long-term stability of the Autonomy Preference Index.

    Article • Psychological Assessment, January 2017, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  56. Coercion in mental health: a trial of the effectiveness of community treatment orders and an investigation of informal coercion in community mental health care

    Article • Programme Grants for Applied Research, December 2016, National Institute for Health Research

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  57. Recall of patients on community treatment orders over three years in the OCTET CTO cohort

    Article • BMC Psychiatry, November 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  58. What does being on a community treatment orders entail? A 3-year follow-up of the OCTET CTO cohort

    Article • Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, November 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  59. ‘It's unbelievably humiliating’—Patients' expressions of negative effects of coercion in mental health care

    Article • International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, November 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  60. The association between continuity of care and readmission to hospital in patients with severe psychosis

    Article • Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, October 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  61. Hospitalisation and compulsion: The research agenda

    Article • The British Journal of Psychiatry, August 2016, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  62. An empirical ethical analysis of community treatment orders within mental health services in England

    Article • Clinical Ethics, July 2016, SAGE Publications

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  63. Evidence-Based Practice in Use of CTOs

    Article • The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, June 2016, SAGE Publications

    Professor Steve R Kisely, Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  64. Community treatment orders in the UK 5 years on: a repeat national survey of psychiatrists

    Article • BJPsych Bulletin, June 2016, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  65. Negotiating the care-giving role: family members’ experience during critical exacerbation of COPD in Norway

    Article • Health & Social Care in the Community, April 2016, Wiley

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  66. Likelihood and predictors of detention in patients with personality disorder compared with other mental disorders: A retrospective, quantitative study of Mental Health Act assessments

    Article • Personality and Mental Health, March 2016, Wiley

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  67. Effectiveness of Community Treatment Orders: The International Evidence

    Article • The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, January 2016, SAGE Publications

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  68. Non-consent bias in OCTET – Authors' reply

    Article • The Lancet Psychiatry, December 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  69. Effect of increased compulsion on readmission to hospital or disengagement from community services for patients with psychosis: follow-up of a cohort from the OCTET trial

    Article • The Lancet Psychiatry, October 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  70. Reply

    Article • Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, July 2015, Wiley

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  71. Increased influence and collaboration: a qualitative study of patients’ experiences of community treatment orders within an assertive community treatment setting

    Article • BMC Health Services Research, June 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Rolf Wynn, Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  72. In defence of OCTET

    Article • The Lancet Psychiatry, May 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  73. Associations Between Continuity of Care and Patient Outcomes in Mental Health Care: A Systematic Review

    Article • Psychiatric Services, April 2015, American Psychiatric Association

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  74. Informal coercion in psychiatry: a focus group study of attitudes and experiences of mental health professionals in ten countries

    Article • Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, February 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  75. Community treatment orders: clinical and social outcomes, and a subgroup analysis from the OCTET RCT

    Article • Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, December 2014, Wiley

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  76. Patient, psychiatrist and family carer experiences of community treatment orders: qualitative study

    Article • Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, June 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  77. Coercion and compulsion in mental healthcare—An international perspective

    Article • Asian Journal of Psychiatry, April 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  78. Trust, Deals and Authority: Community Mental Health Professionals’ Experiences of Influencing Reluctant Patients

    Article • Community Mental Health Journal, March 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  79. The OCTET RCT – a reply to Dr Mustafa

    Article • Medicine Science and the Law, March 2014, SAGE Publications

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  80. CTOs: what is the state of the evidence?

    Article • Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, February 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  81. The use of leverage in community mental health: Ethical guidance for practitioners

    Article • International Journal of Social Psychiatry, February 2014, SAGE Publications

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  82. Community treatment orders: Current evidence and the implications

    Article • The British Journal of Psychiatry, December 2013, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  83. Operationalising the capability approach for outcome measurement in mental health research

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, December 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  84. A systematic review of the effect of community treatment orders on service use

    Article • Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, October 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  85. Community treatment orders for patients with psychosis – Authors' reply

    Article • The Lancet, August 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  86. Cultural variation in psychopathology: From research to practice

    Article • European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, July 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  87. Community treatment orders for patients with psychosis (OCTET): a randomised controlled trial

    Article • The Lancet, May 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  88. Leverage and other informal pressures in community psychiatry in England

    Article • International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, March 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  89. Threats and offers in community mental healthcare

    Article • Journal of Medical Ethics, December 2011, BMJ

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  90. Community treatment orders in England and Wales: national survey of clinicians' views and use

    Article • The Psychiatrist, September 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  91. LAWFULNESS OF A RANDOMISED TRIAL OF THE NEW COMMUNITY TREATMENT ORDER REGIME FOR ENGLAND AND WALES

    Article • Medical Law Review, January 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  92. Researching Mental Health in Minority Ethnic Communities: Reflections on Recruitment

    Article • Qualitative Health Research, August 2010, SAGE Publications

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  93. Coercion and compulsion in community mental health care

    Article • British Medical Bulletin, May 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  94. Community treatment orders

    Article • Psychiatry, December 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  95. The Oxford Community Treatment order Evaluation Trial (OCTET)

    Article • Psychiatric Bulletin, October 2008, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  96. Intersectoral partnerships, the knowledge economy and intangible assets

    Article • Policy & Politics, April 2008, Policy Press

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  97. Benefits of working in partnership: A model

    Article • Critical Public Health, September 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  98. “The walls were so damp and cold” fuel poverty and ill health in Northern Ireland: Results from a housing intervention

    Article • Health & Place, March 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  99. The right tool for the task: ‘boundary spanners’ in a partnership approach to tackle fuel poverty in rural Northern Ireland

    Article • Health & Social Care in the Community, December 2006, Wiley

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  100. Integrating sustainable development and public health on the island of Ireland

    Article • Public Health, July 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  101. Smoking and peer groups: Results from a longitudinal qualitative study of young people in Northern Ireland

    Article • British Journal of Social Psychology, September 2005, Wiley

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  102. Hard boys, attractive girls: expressions of gender in young people's conversations on smoking in Northern Ireland

    Article • Health Promotion International, December 2003, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  103. Anxious adults vs. cool children: children's views on smoking and addiction

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, September 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa

  104. Smoking and symbolism: children, communication and cigarettes

    Article • Health Education Research, April 2001, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Jorun Rugkåsa