Pressures to adhere to treatment ('leverage') in English mental healthcare.

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BACKGROUND: Coercion has usually been equated with legal detention. Non-statutory pressures to adhere to treatment, 'leverage', have been identified as widespread in US public mental healthcare. It is not clear if this is so outside the USA. AIMS: To measure rates of different non-statutory pressures in distinct clinical populations in England, to test their associations with patient characteristics and compare them with US rates. METHOD: Data were collected by a structured interview conduct...

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Authors: Burns, T; Yeeles, K; Molodynski, A; Nightingale, H; Vazquez-Montes, M

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science
• Volume: 199
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 145-150
• Publication date: 2011-08-01
• DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.110.086827
• EISSN: 1472-1465
• ISSN: 0007-1250
• Language: English
• Keywords: Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; Patient Compliance; Coercion; Heroin Dependence; Cross-Cultural Comparison; Psychotic Disorders; Child; Questionnaires; United States; England; Mental Disorders; Female; Housing; Male; Cross-Sectional Studies; Statistics as Topic; Humans; Community Mental Health Services; Adult