The capacity to consent to treatment is altered in suicidal patients
Abstract Background Many patients with depression refuse treatment. Moreover, suicide attempters often display low perceived need of treatment and impaired decision-making. These observations raise questions about the capacity to treatment consent in depressed suicide attempters (SA). Methods In pat...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2023-09-01
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Series: | Annals of General Psychiatry |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12991-023-00459-w |