Acta Neuropsychiatr
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Acta Neuropsychiatr · Dec 2014
To what extent psychiatric patients feel involved in decision making about their mental health care? Relationships with socio-demographic, clinical, and psychological variables.
Shared decision making (SDM) is an essential component of patient-centered care, but there is little information about its use in the psychiatric care. ⋯ The result of this study suggests that SDM is currently not widely practiced in psychiatric care. Further research is needed to examine if the low level of participation self-reported is justified by psychiatric patients' decisional capacity.