Compulsory hospitalization: Ethical foundations, coercion and procedural justice

作者：Rossini Kevin^*; Senon Jean Louis; Verdoux Helene

来源：ANNALES MEDICO-PSYCHOLOGIQUES, 2016, 174(10): 832-838.

DOI：10.1016/j.amp.2015.07.039

• Care consent
• Ethics
• Compulsory hospitalization
• Judiciary process
• Procedural justice
• Literature review
• Recommendation

Objective. - To "review current state knowledge about the ethical foundations of Compulsory Hospitalization (CH) along with the notions of context-related coercion and procedural justice.
Method. - Literature review.
Results. - Psychiatric disorders may jeopardize the capacity to self-control and make autonomous decisions. Initiating a CH is then guided by the principle of benevolence, which justifies the freedom restriction by the assumption that the patient will draw potential benefit from the hospitalization. Psychiatric care without consent does not overlap care under coercion. This coercion may be applied by several legal steps: legal coercion, objective coercion, perceived and accumulative coercion. Procedural justice may be seen as the patient's perception to be part of a respectful and fair decision process.
Conclusion. - The implication of patients in the decision-making process of CH through procedural justice-based strategies (health care directives, judicial hearings) should be favoured to restrict their perception of coercion.

• 出版日期2016-12