THE PATIENTS OPINIONS ABOUT CURATIVE FACTORS IN INVOLUNTARY TREATMENT

The patients' opinions about their treatment are seldom solicited in p sychiatry. We studied the opinions of 225 patients about curative fact ors in their treatment in a maximum security hospital: 90% answered th e questions, which evaluated 38 forms of treatment. The patients recei ved help from free walking in the hospital area in 98% of the patients , holidays in 93%, a personal psychiatric nurse in 91%, trips in 91%, communication in 88%, personnel's support in 87% and a psychiatrist in 86%. Medication was considered helpful in 77% and even restriction or isolation in 36% of the patients. If the patient experienced help fro m the psychiatrist, the cross-tabulation revealed that she or he also received help from many other treatment forms, even from the isolation . Help from the personal psychiatric nurse and medication depended on many other treatment forms. The most helpful treatment factors experie nced were liberties and interactive treatment forms.