ReviewFrontiers in public health2023
Mental health law: a comparison of compulsory hospital admission in Italy and the UK.
Review in Frontiers in public health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- Identifying psychiatrist characteristics associated with likelihood of recommending involuntary hospitalization for patients using a novel tool to assess decision-making.PLOS mental health · 2026Article
- Determinants of compulsory admission in detainees with acute psychiatric symptoms in the French speaking counties of Switzerland.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Legislation and policy for involuntary mental healthcare across countries in the FOSTREN network: rationale, development of mapping survey and protocol.BJPsych open · 2024Article
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Abstract
In Europe, the mental health law legal framework has had several changes throughout the years to achieve and develop new reforms, better mental health care, and protect the human rights of patients. The UK national data shows rising detention rates and the disproportionate use of the legal framework among people from black and minority ethnic groups. At the national level, compulsory admissions are lower in Italy; it also shows that it has increased in the last few years in both countries. The lack of ethnic national data, especially in Italy, limited the ability to understand compulsory admission, discrimination, and stigma in mental health. The present study aims to compare the legal framework of mental health law and compulsory hospital admission in Italy and the UK. A review of each country's latest amendments to mental health law and the number of compulsory hospital admissions was conducted to understand the impact of changes in mental health care.
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