Service Users’ Knowledge and Views on Outpatients’ Compulsory CommunityTreatment Orders: A Cross-Sectional Matched Comparison Study

摘要

Community treatment orders (CTOs) have been used in the treatment of some individualswith serious mental illness who fail to adhere to their psychiatric treatment, leadingto frequent hospitalization. This article examines perceptions and knowledge of CTOsamongst outpatient service users in Toronto, Canada.