Empirical assessment of competency to consent to psychiatric hospitalization
- 1 September 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 138 (9), 1170-1176
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.9.1170
Abstract
The authors used an interview questionnaire to assess competency to consent to voluntary admission in a group of 50 newly admitted psychiatric patients. Using a number of alternative definitions of competency with this sample of patients tested shortly after admission, they found that a majority of patients appeared to have severe impairment of competency. These results suggest limitations in the applicability of the legal model of informed consent to the psychiatric setting.Keywords
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