Perceived coercion and the therapeutic relationship: a neglected association?
Similar factors may influence patients' experience of both coercion and the therapeutic relationship during psychiatric hospital admission. Hospitalization, even when voluntary, was viewed as more coercive when patients rated their relationship with the admitting clinician negatively. Interventions to improve the therapeutic relationship may reduce perceptions of coercion.
Vitamin-D status was not associated with incidence and severity of diarrhoea in study children. Role of zinc in diarrhoea was only evident in normal-weight children. Our findings demonstrate that vitamin-D is not a confounder of the relationship between zinc and diarrhoea.