Responsibilities with conflicting priorities: a qualitative study of ACT providers' experiences with community treatment orders.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients with severe mental illness may be subjected to Community Treatment Orders (CTOs) in order to secure that the patients adhere to treatment. Few studies have investigated the use of CTOs within an Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) setting, and little is known about how the tension between the patients' autonomy and the clinicians' responsibility to act in the patients' best interest are resolved in practice. The aim of this study was to explore the service providers' experiences with CTOs within an ACT setting.

Methods

The study was based on reviews of case files of 15 patients, eight individual qualitative in depth interviews and four focus group interviews with service providers involved in ACT and decisions related to CTOs. A modified grounded theory a

SUBMITTER: Stuen HK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5907185 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature