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Factors influencing advance directives among psychiatric inpatients in India.
Guru S Gowda
1 ,
Eric O Noorthoorn
2 ,
Peter Lepping
3 ,
Channaveerachari Naveen Kumar
4 ,
Raveesh Bevinahalli Nanjegowda
5 ,
Suresh Bada Math
4
April 28 2018
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Abstract
Advance directives are documents stating treatment preferences in case of future lack of decision making capacity. In India, as in many other countries, legislators advocate Psychiatric Advance Directives (PADs), while evidence on its use is limited. This study examined factors influencing PADs by gathering inpatients perspectives on PADs at discharge and investigating patient characteristics associated with the expression of treatment wishes in PADs.