Attitudinal Changes of Involuntarily Committed Patients Following Treatment

Experiences with legally mandated treatment in patients with schizophrenia: A systematic review of qualitative studies

“…Many patients described in this review retrospectively acknowledged that their treatment was beneficial. This is consistent with previous research, and is especially true for patients who achieved improvement of symptoms [59,60]. In a previous systematic review, the majority of patients who were admitted involuntarily exhibited substantial improvement with treatment [59].…”

Patients' and Staff Members' Attitudes About the Rights of Hospitalized Psychiatric Patients

“…The results of some studies lend support to the justification of paternalistic interventions by showing equal levels of satisfaction and positive attitudes between voluntarily and involuntarily admitted patients at discharge (28,29). Other studies have shown the diminished ability of psychiatric patients to understand decisions about hospitalization and treatment compared with patients in a general hospital (30,31).…”

WPA guidance on how to combat stigmatization of psychiatry and psychiatrists

“…However, this was not the case in patients who had already undergone ECT 206,207,208. Similarly, while most patients reported that they were not in favor of compulsory treatment, because it would limit their autonomy, most evaluated their actual experience with compulsory treatment as helpful 197,209,210,211,212,213,214,215,216,217,218.…”