ArticleBJPsych open2022
Health professionals' experience of treatment of patients whose community treatment order was revoked under new capacity-based mental health legislation in Norway: qualitative study.
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- Human rights-based mental healthcare: new developments, introducing a themed series of papers.BJPsych open · 2026Article
- Assessing decision-making capacity in clinical practice in Norway: a qualitative exploration of stakeholder perspectives.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Impact of introducing a capacity-based mental health law in Norway: qualitative exploration of multi-stakeholder perspectives.BJPsych open · 2025Article
- Effects of stricter legislation on coercive measures in child and adolescent psychiatric care: a qualitative interview study with staff.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Capacity-based legislation in Norway has so far scarcely influenced the daily life and responsibilities of patients' carers: a qualitative study.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
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backgroundNorway introduced capacity-based legislation in mental healthcare on 1 September 2017 with the aim of increasing patient autonomy and legal protection and reducing the use of coercion. The new legislation was expected to be particularly important for patients under community treatment orders (CTOs).
aimsTo explore health professionals' experiences of how capacity-based legislation affects healthcare services for patients whose compulsory treatment order was revoked as a result of being assessed as having capacity to consent.
methodNine health professionals responsible for treatment and care of patients whose CTO was revoked owing to the new legislation were interviewed in depth from September 2019 to March 2020. We used a hermeneutic approach to the interviews and analysis of the transcripts.
resultsThe participants found that capacity-based legislation raised their awareness of their responsibility for patient autonomy and involvement in treatment and care. They also felt a need for more frequent assessments of patients' condition and capacity to consent and more flexibility between levels of care.
conclusionsThe study shows that health professionals found that capacity-based legislation raised their awareness of their responsibility for patient autonomy and involvement in treatment and care. They sought closer dialogue with patients, providing information and advice, and more frequently assessing patients' condition to adjust treatment and care to enable them to retain their capacity to consent. This could be challenging and required competence, continuity and close collaboration between personnel in different healthcare services at primary and specialist level.
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