Informed advance refusals of treatment by people with severe mental illness in a randomised controlled trial of joint crisis plans: demand content and correlates

摘要

BackgroundIn the UK, crisis planning for mental health care should acknowledge the right to make an informed advance treatment refusal under the Mental Capacity Act 2005. Our aims were to estimate the demand for such treatment refusals within a sample of service users who had had a recent hospital admission for psychosis or bipolar disorder, and to examine the relationship between refusals, and service user characteristics.