Voting Behavior and Attitudes of Chronic Mentally Ill Outpatients

Duckworth, Kenneth; Sj, Kingsbury; Kass, Norman; Goisman, Robert M.; Wellington, Chante; M, Etheridge

doi:10.1176/ps.45.6.608

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“…Duckworth et al . (1994, p. 609) found that ‘the great majority of our sample considered voting very important and it made them feel more involved in the political process’.…”

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Voting as a means of social inclusion for people with a mental illness

Nash

2002

Psychiatric Ment Health Nurs

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People suffering from mental illness are often disenfranchized from many functions of society. Voting is one such area where disenfranchizement and exclusion are unnecessarily experienced. The emphasis on service provision as a means of achieving social inclusion for those with mental illness may relegate it to a principle of treatment compliance. Should measures of social function remain the main indicators of successful community care or should measures of social integration be identified, assessed and maintained? Mental health professionals should actively pursue users' voting rights in light of the changing legal climate and the introduction of human rights legislation into United Kingdom law. With the potentially huge political capital in this area the author believes that the current debate regarding social inclusion cannot be adequately addressed unless this fundamental and democratic principle is included more extensively.

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“…Duckworth et al . (1994, p. 609) found that ‘the great majority of our sample considered voting very important and it made them feel more involved in the political process’.…”

Section: Therapeutic Valuementioning

confidence: 99%

Voting as a means of social inclusion for people with a mental illness

Nash

2002

Psychiatric Ment Health Nurs

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“…However, research studies showed that the mentally ill are politically aware (Jaychuk and Manchanda, 1991;Duckworth et al, 1994) and that some may at times manifest dysfunction in one area of activity which does not indicate lack of competence in other areas (Armstrong, 1976;Ibrahim and Frumkin, 1977). However, after being given this right to vote, only a minority of patients voted.…”

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Hospitalized mentally ill patients voting in Israel

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Nehama²,

Elizur³

2000

The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry

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“…Untersucht wurden aber fast ausschlieûlich Populationen aktuell erkrankter Patienten in Krankenhäusern. Lediglich Duckworth (1994) befragte Nutzer einer Einrichtung für chronisch psychisch Kranke, kam allerdings zu dem gleichen Ergebnis wie die anderen Autoren in ihren Arbeiten zu diesem Thema [16]. Da die Personen, die sich in den Verbänden für Psychiatrieerfahrene organisiert haben, in der Regel langfristige Krankheitsverläufe haben, sind wir der Frage nachgegangen, ob die in den US-amerikanischen Studien gewonnenen Erkenntnisse zum Wahlverhalten psychisch Kranker auch für chronisch psychisch kranke Menschen in Deutschland Gültigkeit besitzen.…”

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“…Duckworth (1994) regte daher bereits in seiner Publikation an, ähnliche Studien in anderen Regionen der USA durchzuführen[16]. Die Diskrepanz zu früheren Arbeiten mag weiterhin darin begründet sein, dass unserer Studie auch ein anderes Anliegen verfolgte.…”

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