Reliability of clinical judgment for evaluation of informed consent in mental health settings and the validation of the Evaluation of Informed Consent to Treatment (EICT) scale

IntroductionThe competence assessment to give informed consent in the legal and healthcare settings is often performed merely through clinical judgment. Given the acknowledged limited reliability of clinician-based evaluation in the mental health sector, particularly for the assessment of competence...

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Published in:	Frontiers in Psychology
Main Authors:	Nicola Di Fazio, Donato Morena, Federica Piras, Fabrizio Piras, Nerisa Banaj, Giuseppe Delogu, Felice Damato, Paola Frati, Vittorio Fineschi, Stefano Ferracuti, Gabriele Sani, Claudia Dacquino
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2024-03-01
Subjects:	informed consent clinical reliability competence mental capacity schizophrenia assessment tools
Online Access:	https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1309909/full