… An explanatory trial might have been a first step in our assessment of advance directives in
mental illnesses, but it is difficult to see how it could be conducted. Restricting recruitment to …

… Our results confirm other reports that patients with severe and enduring mental health
problems are capable of drawing up advance directives for care that are realistic, logical, rational …

… Mental illness, even a severe mental illness like schizophrenia, simply cannot be equated
with incompetence to make rational treatment decisions.36 The due process liberty interest …

… advance directives for mental health services helps patients feel they have made ‘‘authentically
informed choices’’ (23), advance directives … Advance directives impact on psychiatric …

… to psychiatric advance directives, medical advance care planning has been neglected for
persons with serious mental illness (33,… advance directives among persons with serious mental …

… benefits of facilitation sessions for completing psychiatric advance directives observed in
this study may not generalize to all patients with severe mental illness. Patients who were not …

… or older adults without mental disorder; contained only data on advance directives in the
context of … of schizophrenia or related disorders, bipolar disorder, depression, or serious mental …

… of medical advance directives. We hypothesized that nursing home residents with
serious mental illness are less likely than other residents to have written advance directives. …

… document advance instructions for their future mental health treatment or to designate a health
… services provision with trained PAD facilitators if serious attempts to use PADs in practice …

… mental disorder; the study focused on advance directives in the context of somatic health
conditions … for patients compulsorily admitted to hospital with serious mental disorders: directive …