… patient autonomy and human rights based on a psychiatric disease assessment and a review
committee consisting of several specialists, including psychiatric … in their ward. This study …

… evaluate improvement in competency during psychiatric hospitalization. The authors sought
to determine whether patients admitted to a psychiatric ward as incompetent to consent to …

… Staff working on psychiatric wards may be apprehensive, scared of being verbally or
physically attacked. The primary goal of a physician is to keep themselves safe. However, this …

… and although patient participation is strongly connected to the ethical ideal of autonomy, the
… This was one of the reasons why nurses in a subacute psychiatric hospital took the initiative …

… ward atmosphere of an acute psychiatric ward 11 times. In this period, roughly 70% of patients
… feelings by patients and staff), Autonomy (measures how self-sufficient and independent …

… For example, the importance we place on rights like autonomy in contemporary society helps
to explain why coercion is more controversial than ever. Likewise, a discourse of safety and …

… During the last few decades major changes have occurred in Swedish psychiatric care,
involving a more autonomous role for the patient, increased outpatient care and integration of …

… to a large-scale emptying of psychiatric wards. Unfortunately, community mental health was
… it restricts patient autonomy and is disempowering. In multiple studies, interviewed patients …

… autonomy to dimensional scores for each DSM-III-R personality disorder (PD) in a sample of
188 psychiatric patients, … traits were related specifically to autonomy. Borderline, narcissistic, …

… psychiatrists in several countries, including the United States, and our own observations in
Israel, lead us to conclude that in many psychiatric wards, patients' … and patient autonomy: …