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COERCION AND COMPULSORY HOSPITALIZATION: SOME PATIENTS' ATTITUDES
Author(s) -
Shan Peter J.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1976.tb115360.x
Subject(s) - feeling , coercion (linguistics) , hospital admission , psychiatry , medicine , psychology , social psychology , linguistics , philosophy
Patients' attitudes upon admission to a psychiatric hospital were elicited. Negative feelings were expressed significantly more often by those who felt coerced into hospital and those admitted compulsorily. Reasons given for these negative feelings are discussed together with suggestions as to how admission procedures could be improved.