The perceived coerciveness of involuntary outpatient commitment: Findings from an experimental study

Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 207-217

  Swartz, Marvin S ^a   Wagner, H Ryan ^a   Swanson, Jeffrey W ^a   Hiday, Virginia A ^a   Burns, Barbara J ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INVOLUNTARY COMMITMENT; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NEGRO; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; ADOLESCENT; AFTERCARE; AGED; CASE MANAGEMENT; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; INTERVIEW; LEGAL ASPECT; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIES; MENTAL HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; STANDARD; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT REFUSAL; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFTERCARE; AGED; CASE MANAGEMENT; COERCION; COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMAN; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NORTH CAROLINA; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY OF LIFE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TREATMENT REFUSAL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIES;

EID: 0036019094     PISSN: 10936793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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