Protected adults' voting rights: an interdisciplinary study of medical assessment and jurisprudence in France.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The study's objective was to describe the decision-making about voting rights of protected adults, which includes the medical assessment and the magistrate's decision to maintain voting rights or not.

Design

This work explores using an interdisciplinary approach: first, magistrate's decision-making with a systematic review of jurisprudence and second medical assessment with semistructured questionnaires sent to physicians assessing adults under guardianship.

Setting

France.

Participants

For jurisprudence's analysis, all guardianship decisions found on the Legifrance.gouv.fr website and that specified the protected person's voting rights were analysed. For the survey about medical civic assessment, an 18-item questionnaire was sent to all physicians d

SUBMITTER: Bosquet A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6059299 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature