TY - JOUR
T1 - Dutch Mental Health Patients’ and Significant Others’ Perspectives on Compulsory Treatment at Home: One Size Does Not Fit All
T2 - One Size Does Not Fit All
AU - de Waardt, D. A.
AU - Meijnckens, D.
AU - Wierdsma, A. I.
AU - Widdershoven, G. A. M.
AU - Mulder, C. L.
N1 - Funding Information: The authors thank the patient and family representatives from the guideline-development project group from MIND for designing the questionnaire and the patients and significant others that filled out the questionnaire for participating in this survey. The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2021.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - On January 1, 2020, the Compulsory Mental Health Care Act took effect in the Netherlands. It contains provisions for compulsory community treatment (CCT) and compulsory treatment at home (CTH). In this study, we collected the opinions of patients and their significant others on CTH and on their preferences regarding compulsory care in their homes. Patients and their significant others were involved in the experience-based co-design of a purpose-built online questionnaire. This questionnaire was completed by 624 patients and 531 significant others. Sixty-one percent of the patients and 62% of the significant others did not want compulsory treatment to take place at home but in hospital or elsewhere. Patients’ and significant others’ opinion showed few differences, except with regard to the involvement of the significant others in CTH. As the respective views of patients and significant others were mixed, we recommend that crisis plans and compulsory treatment plans should be individually tailored to the needs and wishes of patients and their significant others regarding CTH.
AB - On January 1, 2020, the Compulsory Mental Health Care Act took effect in the Netherlands. It contains provisions for compulsory community treatment (CCT) and compulsory treatment at home (CTH). In this study, we collected the opinions of patients and their significant others on CTH and on their preferences regarding compulsory care in their homes. Patients and their significant others were involved in the experience-based co-design of a purpose-built online questionnaire. This questionnaire was completed by 624 patients and 531 significant others. Sixty-one percent of the patients and 62% of the significant others did not want compulsory treatment to take place at home but in hospital or elsewhere. Patients’ and significant others’ opinion showed few differences, except with regard to the involvement of the significant others in CTH. As the respective views of patients and significant others were mixed, we recommend that crisis plans and compulsory treatment plans should be individually tailored to the needs and wishes of patients and their significant others regarding CTH.
KW - compulsory community treatment
KW - compulsory treatment at home
KW - mental health
KW - patient opinion
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1177/23743735211033100
DO - https://doi.org/10.1177/23743735211033100
M3 - Article
C2 - 34435087
SN - 2374-3735
VL - 8
JO - Journal of Patient Experience
JF - Journal of Patient Experience
ER -