Mental Health Inpatient Coercive Practice and Post-Incident Review Data from England

Over 8,000 anonymised patient incident records from a mental health service provider in England, spanning three years. The dataset was created by Lewys Beames for a latent class analysis study examining profiles of coercive practice exposure and their association with post-incident reviews. It was last updated on 2026-04-15.

Use Cases

• Identify latent profiles of coercive practice exposure based on incident type combinations.
• Analyze demographic disparities in the provision of post-incident reviews.
• Predict the likelihood of a post-incident review omission based on the coercive practice context.
• Examine staff-reported reasons for omitting post-incident reviews across different patient profiles.

Strengths

• Contains over 8,000 incident records from a three-year period.
• Focuses on a specific, high-impact clinical issue with clear ethical implications.
• Data is anonymised and shared under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Row count for the analytical dataset is unknown, limiting scale assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data originates from a single provider in England, which may limit generalizability.

Provenance

Source

Centralised electronic incident reporting system of a mental health service provider in England.

Collection Method

Cross-sectional, retrospective analysis of anonymised patient incident data.

Time Range

Three years (specific years not stated).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-15 17:43:27; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England