Mental Disorders of Incompetent Adults in the Czech Republic

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Mental Disorders of Incompetent Adults in the Czech Republic

Original language description

The objective of the study was to determine socio-demographic and epidemiological data on incompetent adults (i.e. people over 18 years of age were deprived of legal capacity by court decisions) for the analysis of the system of guardianship in the CzechRepublic. One of the objectives of this study was to identify the types of mental disorders at incompetent adults. A survey, carried out in two regions in the Czech Republic in 2009-2011, consisted of two phases. The partial results from the first phasewill be presented in the article. The content of 1,092 court records on incompetent adults over the period 2006-2008 was analysed and described. The data collection technique was used as the content analysis. The results indicated the difference betweenthe types of mental disorders of incompetent adults by age groups and sex in both regions. The most frequent mental disorders for which males (137 of 592) were deprived of legal capacity was moderate mental retardation (23.1%) and Alzhei

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

FQ - Public health system, social medicine

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2014

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

MITTEILUNGEN KLOSTERNEUBURG

ISSN

0007-5922

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

64

Issue of the periodical within the volume

9

Country of publishing house

AT - AUSTRIA

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

50-57

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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