1993
DOI: 10.1002/bsl.2370110308
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Two scales for measuring patients' perceptions for coercion during mental hospital admission

Abstract: Legal and extra-legal coercion are pervasive in mental hospital admission and there are sharp disputes about its appropriate role. This article presents two scales for measuring psychiatric patients' perceptions of coercion during hospital admission and reports data on these scales' internal consistency. We measure patients' perceptions of coercion by asking questions, in either an interview or questionnaire format, about their experience of lack of control, choice, influence, and freedom in hospital admission… Show more

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“…CHAMP also builds activities around meals and other forms of recreation that may have been perceived as fun, and thus as motivators. Also, as found in other studies, social influence in form of a friend in the program was another motivator to some respondents (Gardner, Hoge, Bennett, Roth, Lidz, Monahan, & Mulvey, 1993).…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 68%
“…CHAMP also builds activities around meals and other forms of recreation that may have been perceived as fun, and thus as motivators. Also, as found in other studies, social influence in form of a friend in the program was another motivator to some respondents (Gardner, Hoge, Bennett, Roth, Lidz, Monahan, & Mulvey, 1993).…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 68%
“…Perceived Coercion-We could locate no standardized instrument that is designed to measure perceptions of coercion to participate in a research study. Therefore, as in our previous study (Festinger et al, 2005) we used a modified version of the Perceived Coercion Scale of the MacArthur Admission Experience Survey (MAES; Gardner et al, 1993). This five-item, true/false scale was originally designed to measure perceptions of coercion to enter inpatient psychiatric treatment.…”
Section: New Drugmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Dessa forma, sentir-se coagido durante a internação psiquiátrica, no caso dos estudos conduzidos por aquele grupo, significa, para o paciente, perceber que não teve influência, controle, liberdade ou escolha em relação ao processo, ou que ele não tomou a decisão de ser hospitalizado (Gardner et al, 1993 Buscou-se, desta forma, compreender melhor que fatores levaram os sujeitos da pesquisa a manifestarem haver-se sentido coagidos ao expressar-se. A amostra foi composta por um total de seis sujeitos, três dos quais estavam internados na instituição e três faziam tratamento ambulatorial.…”
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