Dutch Mental Health Patients’ and Significant Others’ Perspectives on Compulsory Treatment at Home: One Size Does Not Fit All
On January 1, 2020, the Compulsory Mental Health Care Act took effect in the Netherlands. It contains provisions for compulsory community treatment (CCT) and compulsory treatment at home (CTH). In this study, we collected the opinions of patients and their significant others on CTH and on their pref...
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| description | On January 1, 2020, the Compulsory Mental Health Care Act took effect in the Netherlands. It contains provisions for compulsory community treatment (CCT) and compulsory treatment at home (CTH). In this study, we collected the opinions of patients and their significant others on CTH and on their preferences regarding compulsory care in their homes. Patients and their significant others were involved in the experience-based co-design of a purpose-built online questionnaire. This questionnaire was completed by 624 patients and 531 significant others. Sixty-one percent of the patients and 62% of the significant others did not want compulsory treatment to take place at home but in hospital or elsewhere. Patients’ and significant others’ opinion showed few differences, except with regard to the involvement of the significant others in CTH. As the respective views of patients and significant others were mixed, we recommend that crisis plans and compulsory treatment plans should be individually tailored to the needs and wishes of patients and their significant others regarding CTH. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e9eef6dd146c4e1089e440bdf4c592232022-12-21T18:48:05ZengSAGE PublishingJournal of Patient Experience2374-37432021-08-01810.1177/23743735211033100Dutch Mental Health Patients’ and Significant Others’ Perspectives on Compulsory Treatment at Home: One Size Does Not Fit AllDA de Waardt MSc0D Meijnckens MSc1AI Wierdsma PhD2GAM Widdershoven PhD3CL Mulder PhD4 Department of Psychiatry, ETZ Hospital (Elisabeth-TweeSteden Ziekenhuis), Tilburg, the Netherlands MIND, Amersfoort, the Netherlands Department of Psychiatry, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands Department of Ethics, Law and Humanities, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands Department of Psychiatry, Epidemiological and Social Psychiatric Research institute (ESPRi), Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the NetherlandsOn January 1, 2020, the Compulsory Mental Health Care Act took effect in the Netherlands. It contains provisions for compulsory community treatment (CCT) and compulsory treatment at home (CTH). In this study, we collected the opinions of patients and their significant others on CTH and on their preferences regarding compulsory care in their homes. Patients and their significant others were involved in the experience-based co-design of a purpose-built online questionnaire. This questionnaire was completed by 624 patients and 531 significant others. Sixty-one percent of the patients and 62% of the significant others did not want compulsory treatment to take place at home but in hospital or elsewhere. Patients’ and significant others’ opinion showed few differences, except with regard to the involvement of the significant others in CTH. As the respective views of patients and significant others were mixed, we recommend that crisis plans and compulsory treatment plans should be individually tailored to the needs and wishes of patients and their significant others regarding CTH.https://doi.org/10.1177/23743735211033100 |
| spellingShingle | DA de Waardt MSc D Meijnckens MSc AI Wierdsma PhD GAM Widdershoven PhD CL Mulder PhD Dutch Mental Health Patients’ and Significant Others’ Perspectives on Compulsory Treatment at Home: One Size Does Not Fit All Journal of Patient Experience |
| title | Dutch Mental Health Patients’ and Significant Others’ Perspectives on Compulsory Treatment at Home: One Size Does Not Fit All |
| title_full | Dutch Mental Health Patients’ and Significant Others’ Perspectives on Compulsory Treatment at Home: One Size Does Not Fit All |
| title_fullStr | Dutch Mental Health Patients’ and Significant Others’ Perspectives on Compulsory Treatment at Home: One Size Does Not Fit All |
| title_full_unstemmed | Dutch Mental Health Patients’ and Significant Others’ Perspectives on Compulsory Treatment at Home: One Size Does Not Fit All |
| title_short | Dutch Mental Health Patients’ and Significant Others’ Perspectives on Compulsory Treatment at Home: One Size Does Not Fit All |
| title_sort | dutch mental health patients and significant others perspectives on compulsory treatment at home one size does not fit all |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1177/23743735211033100 |
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