Compulsory Admissions of patients with mental disorders: State of the art on ethical and legislative aspects in 40 European countries

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00023752:_____/20:43920340

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2020.79" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2020.79</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2020.79" target="_blank" >10.1192/j.eurpsy.2020.79</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Compulsory Admissions of patients with mental disorders: State of the art on ethical and legislative aspects in 40 European countries

Original language description

Background: Compulsory admission procedures of patients with mental disorders vary between countries in Europe. The Ethics Committee of the European Psychiatric Association (EPA) launched a survey on involuntary admission procedures of patients with mental disorders in 40 countries to gather information from all National Psychiatric Associations that are members of the EPA to develop recommendations for improving involuntary admission processes and promote voluntary care. Methods: The survey focused on legislation of involuntary admissions and key actors involved in the admission procedure as well as most common reasons for involuntary admissions. Results: We analysed the survey categorical data in themes, which highlight that both medical and legal actors are involved in involuntary admission procedures. Conclusions: We conclude that legal reasons for compulsory admission should be reworded in order to remove stigmatisation of the patient, that raising awareness about involuntary admission procedures and patient rights with both patients and family advocacy groups is paramount, that communication about procedures should be widely available in lay-language for the general population, and that training sessions and guidance should be available for legal and medical practitioners. Finally, people working in the field need to be constantly aware about the ethical challenges surrounding compulsory admissions.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30215 - Psychiatry

Project

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Continuities

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

European Psychiatry

ISSN

0924-9338

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

63

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

FR - FRANCE

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

"Article e82"

UT code for WoS article

000575415100001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85091558927