Capacity to give informed consent in patients with severe mental disorder in different treatment settings
Mounira Jabat, Mona Redlich Bossy, Nikolaus Bausch Becker, Hannah C. Keppeler, Lena Machetanz, Johannes Kirchebner, Stefan Vetter, Erich Seifritz, Stephan T. Egger · 2026
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Mounira Jabat and eight co-authors measure how well patients with severe mental disorder can give informed consent across care settings. Consent is harder to secure where illness impairs thinking and where care is coercive or forensic, a mix the authors call dual vulnerability. The study ran at the Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich in 2022 and 2023. The German Hopkins Competency Assessment Test was applied to forensic inpatients, regular inpatients, and healthy controls.
The sample held 142 participants with a mean age of 37.5 years, mostly male. Clinical groups included schizophrenia spectrum and affective disorders, some with substance use. The team compares comprehension and decision-making across the three settings.
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| CREATOR | Mounira Jabat, Mona Redlich Bossy, Nikolaus Bausch Becker, Hannah C. Keppeler, Lena Machetanz, Johannes Kirchebner, Stefan Vetter, Erich Seifritz, Stephan T. Egger |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 33 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |