Compulsory treatment in patients' homes in the Netherlands: what do mental health professionals think of this?

Autor: de Waardt DA; Department of Psychiatry, ETZ Hospital (Elisabeth-TweeSteden Ziekenhuis), Hilvarenbeekseweg 60, Tilburg, 5022 GC, the Netherlands. ddewaardt_research@outlook.com., van der Heijden FMMA; Vincent van Gogh for Mental Health, Venray, the Netherlands., Rugkåsa J; Health Services Research Unit, Akershus University Hospital, Lørenskog, Norway.; Centre for Care Research, University of South-Eastern Norway, Porsgrunn, Norway., Mulder CL; Parnassia Psychiatric Institute, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.; Department of Psychiatry, Epidemiological and Social Psychiatric Research institute (ESPRi), Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: BMC psychiatry [BMC Psychiatry] 2020 Feb 24; Vol. 20 (1), pp. 80. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Feb 24.
DOI: 10.1186/s12888-020-02501-7
Abstrakt: Background: Compulsory treatment in patients' homes (CTH) will be introduced in the new Dutch mental health legislation. The aim of this study is to identify the opinions of mental health workers in the Netherlands on compulsory community treatment (CCT), and particularly on compulsory treatment in the patients' home.
Methods: This is a mixed methods study, comprising a semi-structured interview and a survey. Forty mental health workers took part in the semi-structured interview about CCT and 20 of them, working in outpatient services, also completed a questionnaire about CTH. Descriptive analyses were performed of indicated (dis) advantages and problems of CCT and of mean scores on the CTH questionnaire.
Results: Overall, the mental health workers seemed to have positive opinions on CCT. With respect to CTH, all mean scores were in the middle of the range, possibly indicating that clinicians were uncertain regarding safety issues and potential practical problems accompanying the use of CTH.
Conclusions: The majority of the participating mental health workers in this study had a positive attitude towards CCT, but they seemed relative uncertain about potential possibilities and problems of working with CTH.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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