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Two scales for measuring patients' perceptions for coercion during mental hospital admission
Author(s) -
Gardner William,
Hoge Steven K.,
Bennett Nancy,
Roth Loren H.,
Lidz Charles W.,
Monahan John,
Mulvey Edward P.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
behavioral sciences and the law
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.649
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1099-0798
pISSN - 0735-3936
DOI - 10.1002/bsl.2370110308
Subject(s) - coercion (linguistics) , perception , construct (python library) , scale (ratio) , consistency (knowledge bases) , psychology , medicine , hospital admission , psychiatry , social psychology , computer science , philosophy , linguistics , physics , quantum mechanics , neuroscience , artificial intelligence , programming language
Legal and extra‐legal coercion are pervasive in mental hospital admission and there are sharp disputes about its appropriate role. This article presents two scales for measuring psychiatric patients' perceptions of coercion during hospital admission and reports data on these scales' internal consistency. We measure patients' perceptions of coercion by asking questions, in either an interview or questionnaire format, about their experience of lack of control, choice, influence, and freedom in hospital admission. Patients' responses to questions about their perceptions of coercion were highly internally consistent. The internal consistency of the scale was robust with respect to variation in site, instrument format, patient population, and interview procedure. Correspondence analysis was used to construct two numerical scales of perceived coercion.