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Comparison of socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of a) legally involuntarily admitted patients and b) of legally voluntarily admitted patients who feel coerced to admission across the EUNOMIA study sites

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Comparison of socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of a) 
legally involuntarily admitted patients and b) of legally voluntarily 
admitted patients who feel coerced to admission across the 
EUNOMIA study sites
Thomas Kallert1,2
Address: 1Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Dresden, Fetscherstrasse 74, D-01307 Dresden, Germany and 
2Parkkrankenhaus Leipzig-Südost, Klinik für Psychiatrie, Morawitzstrasse 2, D-04289 Leipzig, Germany
Background
Previous research has shown a specific profile of risk fac-
tors characterizing patients who are legally involuntarily
admitted to psychiatric hospitals: younger age, diagnosis
of psychotic disorder and/or mental retardation, manic
symptoms, and male gender and/or non-Caucasian eth-
nicity.
Methods
The naturalistic and epidemiologically oriented EUNO-
MIA-study design in 13 sites in 12 European countries
used a standardized battery of instruments (e.g. psychopa-
thology, legal status, perceived coercion, satisfaction with
treatment) to assess two groups of patients: legally invol-
untarily admitted patients and legally voluntarily admit-
ted patients who feel coerced to admission. Uni- and
multivariate analyses on the data are performed, and a
logit-model for predicting involuntary hospital admission
was developed.
Results
This presentation is based on 2,586 legally involuntary
and 830 legally voluntary patients included in the study.
General and site-specific differences between the two sub-
groups of patients focusing on the initial assessment
within the first week after hospital admission covering
their socio-demographic and clinical characteristics, legal
status, perceived coercion and satisfaction with treatment
will be highlighted. Further, details of the statistical model
predicting involuntary admission will be demonstrated.
Conclusion
Consequences for clinical practice of involuntary hospital
admissions across Europe will be demonstrated.
from WPA Thematic Conference. Coercive Treatment in Psychiatry: A Comprehensive Review
Dresden, Germany. 6–8 June 2007
Published: 19 December 2007
BMC Psychiatry 2007, 7(Suppl 1):S97 doi:10.1186/1471-244X-7-S1-S97
<supplement> <title> <p>World Psychiatric Association (WPA) Thematic Conference. Coercive Treatment in Psychiatry: A Comprehensive Review</p> </title> <editor>Thomas W Kallert, John Monahan, Juan E Mezzich</editor> <note>Meeting abstracts – A single PDF containing all abstracts in this Supplement is available <a href="http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-244X-7-S1-full.pdf">here</a>.</note> <url>http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-224X-7-S1-info.pdf</url> </supplement>
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Comparison of socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of a) legally involuntarily admitted patients and b) of legally voluntarily admitted patients who feel coerced to admission across the EUNOMIA study sites

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