Image of psychiatric patients' competency to give informed consent to treatment in Japan: I. A factor analytic study

International Journal of Law and Psychiatry

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 45-54

  Kitamura, Toshinori ^a   Kitamura, Fusako ^b   Mitsuhashi, Takayuki ^c   Ito, Atsushi ^c   Okazaki, Yuuko ^d   Okuda, Nana ^e   Katoh, Hisao ^e  

^a Director   (Japan)

^b Dept Sociocultural Environ R   (Japan)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPETENCE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; INFORMED CONSENT; JAPAN; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL PATIENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE;

EID: 0033015029     PISSN: 01602527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0160-2527(98)00036-3     Document Type: Article

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