Key components of the mental capacity assessment of patients with anorexia nervosa: a study of three countries
Plain English summary This study investigated the method of assessing the mental capacity of anorexia nervosa (AN) patients who refuse treatment in Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Approximately one-third of clinicians who assessed patients with AN declared that those patients showe...
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| author | Yoshiyuki Takimoto |
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| description | Plain English summary This study investigated the method of assessing the mental capacity of anorexia nervosa (AN) patients who refuse treatment in Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Approximately one-third of clinicians who assessed patients with AN declared that those patients showed impaired decision-making capacity when refusing treatment. Clinicians who considered patients with AN to have impaired decision-making ability tended to focus on the level of psychopathological values when assessing their mental capacity. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1c960476fc6f42148b687a45383dedc42023-02-02T08:16:35ZengBMCJournal of Eating Disorders2050-29742022-07-0110111010.1186/s40337-022-00633-7Key components of the mental capacity assessment of patients with anorexia nervosa: a study of three countriesYoshiyuki Takimoto0Department of Biomedical Ethics, Faculty of Medicine, The University of TokyoPlain English summary This study investigated the method of assessing the mental capacity of anorexia nervosa (AN) patients who refuse treatment in Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Approximately one-third of clinicians who assessed patients with AN declared that those patients showed impaired decision-making capacity when refusing treatment. Clinicians who considered patients with AN to have impaired decision-making ability tended to focus on the level of psychopathological values when assessing their mental capacity.https://doi.org/10.1186/s40337-022-00633-7Anorexia nervosaTreatment refusalClinical ethicsMental capacityDecision-making |
| spellingShingle | Yoshiyuki Takimoto Key components of the mental capacity assessment of patients with anorexia nervosa: a study of three countries Journal of Eating Disorders Anorexia nervosa Treatment refusal Clinical ethics Mental capacity Decision-making |
| title | Key components of the mental capacity assessment of patients with anorexia nervosa: a study of three countries |
| title_full | Key components of the mental capacity assessment of patients with anorexia nervosa: a study of three countries |
| title_fullStr | Key components of the mental capacity assessment of patients with anorexia nervosa: a study of three countries |
| title_full_unstemmed | Key components of the mental capacity assessment of patients with anorexia nervosa: a study of three countries |
| title_short | Key components of the mental capacity assessment of patients with anorexia nervosa: a study of three countries |
| title_sort | key components of the mental capacity assessment of patients with anorexia nervosa a study of three countries |
| topic | Anorexia nervosa Treatment refusal Clinical ethics Mental capacity Decision-making |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1186/s40337-022-00633-7 |
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