The preliminary study of psychiatrist''s opinion in treatment refusal of psychiatric patient

• Main Authors: CHENG-YEA, MA, 馬景野
• Other Authors: 廖榮利
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2000
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/78099392744704043402

碩士 === 中國醫藥學院 === 醫務管理研究所 === 88 === Abstract Treatment refusal of psychiatric patient has been a therapeutic dilemma to many psychiatrists in psychiatric services. The purpose of this study is to verify the correlation between the demographic data and their perspectives of treatment right and doctor-patient relationships of psychiatrists and their opinions in management of psychiatric patient''s treatment refusal. By using a structured questionnaire, 147 psychiatric specialists of the Society of Psychiatry, R.O.C. are surveyed for their opinions in treatment refusal of psychiatric patient. The structured questionnaire of opinion in treatment refusal is categorized into two parts. The first part of the questionnaire includes 9 questions concerning with the agreement to psychiatric patient’s right of treatment refusal in voluntarily or compulsory hospitalization in psychiatric services. The second is a 10-item questionnaire of agreement of psychiatric specialists to the regulations in civil commitment system of Mental Health Law of R.O.C. The results discuss what the demographic data and their perspectives of treatment right and doctor-patient relationships interfere in psychiatrist''s opinions to psychiatric patient’s right of treatment refusal in voluntarily or compulsory psychiatric hospitalization and the agreement to the regulations in civil commitment system of Mental Health Law of R.O.C.