Design & Data Gathering

 
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Timeframe:   01 September 2003 – 31 December 2005.

Research Questions

  1. What are the socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of legally involuntarily admitted patients and of voluntarily admitted patients who feel coerced to admission?
  2. How frequent (and intense) is perceived coercion in patients legally voluntarily and legally involuntarily admitted to the participating hospitals?
  3. What coercive treatment measures (see definitions) are applied to these two groups of patients?
  4. What is the medium-term outcome for legally involuntarily admitted patients and for voluntarily admitted patients who feel coerced to admission?
  5. What are the baseline predictors of more or less favourable medium-term outcome in the two groups of patients?
  6. What is the international variation in questions 1. - 5.?

 
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