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Attitudes of mental health professionals and lay-people towards involuntary admission and treatment in England and Germany—a questionnaire analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

Peter Lepping ,
Tilman Steinert ,
Ralf-Peter Gebhardt  and
Hanns Rüdiger Röttgers
Peter Lepping*
Affiliation:
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership Trust, Cherrybank Resource Centre, 85, Wellington Road, Ellesmere Port, CH65 0BY, UK
Tilman Steinert
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Ulm, Zentrum für Psychiatrie “Die Weissenau”, Weingartshoferstrasse 2, 88214 Ravensburg, Germany
Ralf-Peter Gebhardt
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Ulm, Zentrum für Psychiatrie “Die Weissenau”, Weingartshoferstrasse 2, 88214 Ravensburg, Germany
Hanns Rüdiger Röttgers
Affiliation:
Public Health Authority, Vechta County, Neuer Markt 8, 49377 Vechta, Germany
*
*Corresponding author. E-mail address: lepping@onetel.net.uk (P. Lepping).
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Abstract

Objectives

To identify attitudes about involuntary admission and treatment in mental health professionals and lay-people and to compare results between England and Germany.

Method

Three scenarios of potentially detainable patients were presented to identify attitudes. A questionnaire asked about attitudes towards involuntary admission as well as treatment. A questionnaire analysis was then performed.

Results

There were similar attitudes towards involuntary admission and treatment between lay-people and mental health professionals with the exception of professionals not actively involved in the detention process. The different legal frameworks between Germany and England did not influence attitudes much. Support for involuntary admission and treatment broadly increased with age.

Conclusions

Psychiatrists and other mental health workers are in tune with society with regards to attitudes towards involuntary admission. People involved with mentally ill patients but not in the detention process have negative attitudes towards involuntary admission.

Type
Original article
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , April 2004 , pp. 91 - 95
Copyright
Copyright © 2004 European Psychiatric Association

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