Use of compulsory community treatment in mental healthcare: An integrative review of stakeholders' opinions.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Multiple studies have examined the effects of compulsory community treatment (CCT), amongst them there were three randomized controlled trials (RCT). Overall, they do not find that CCT affects clinical outcomes or reduces the number or duration of hospital admissions more than voluntary care does. Despite these negative findings, in many countries CCT is still used. One of the reasons may be that stakeholders favor a mental health system including CCT.

Aim

This integrative review investigated the opinions of stakeholders (patients, significant others, mental health workers, and policy makers) about the use of CCT.

Methods

We performed an integrative review; to include all qualitative and quantitative manuscripts on the views of patients, significant others,

SUBMITTER: de Waardt DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9669570 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature