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Prehospital care providers' decision to transport the patient with a suicide attempt refusing care in the Cape Town Metropole, Western Cape: A survey based on the Mental Healthcare Act of 2002
Includes bibliographical references
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| author | Evans, Katya |
| author2 | Geduld, Heike |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/16478 Prehospital care providers' decision to transport the patient with a suicide attempt refusing care in the Cape Town Metropole, Western Cape: A survey based on the Mental Healthcare Act of 2002 Evans, Katya Geduld, Heike Stassen, Willem Emergency Medicine Transport services Includes bibliographical references Anecdotally incidents of inappropriate refusal of treatment or transportation by patients referred to hospital under the Mental Healthcare Act of 2002 have been noted. There is little documented about the knowledge and understanding of prehospital providers of the mental healthcare act, their responsibilities and the issues around patient competence and refusal of care. The transportation of patients presenting with a suicide attempt who have not yet been formally assessed for involuntary admission poses a particular problem. Aim: To determine the knowledge of prehospital providers with respect to the transport of patients presenting with suicide attempts and the mental health act and to describe their management of cases where these patients may refuse treatment. Methods: A cross-sectional survey and including open ended questions of 100 prehospital providers in the Western Cape both public and private. The questionnaire will include knowledge testing, vignettes describing patient management and open-ended questions regarding their opinions on suicidal patients. Simple descriptive statistics will be used for the knowledge test. Qualitative data will be coded using a grounded theory approach. Discussion: The findings of the study will be used to determine provider knowledge and attitudes regarding the prehospital management of patients presenting with suicide attempts. Recommendations will be made for provincial EMS guidelines and the results will be disseminated in an article for publication. 2016-01-21T11:07:04Z 2016-01-21T11:07:04Z 2015 Master Thesis Masters MMed http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16478 eng application/pdf Division of Emergency Medicine Faculty of Health Sciences University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Emergency Medicine Transport services Evans, Katya Prehospital care providers' decision to transport the patient with a suicide attempt refusing care in the Cape Town Metropole, Western Cape: A survey based on the Mental Healthcare Act of 2002 |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Prehospital care providers' decision to transport the patient with a suicide attempt refusing care in the Cape Town Metropole, Western Cape: A survey based on the Mental Healthcare Act of 2002 |
| title_full | Prehospital care providers' decision to transport the patient with a suicide attempt refusing care in the Cape Town Metropole, Western Cape: A survey based on the Mental Healthcare Act of 2002 |
| title_fullStr | Prehospital care providers' decision to transport the patient with a suicide attempt refusing care in the Cape Town Metropole, Western Cape: A survey based on the Mental Healthcare Act of 2002 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Prehospital care providers' decision to transport the patient with a suicide attempt refusing care in the Cape Town Metropole, Western Cape: A survey based on the Mental Healthcare Act of 2002 |
| title_short | Prehospital care providers' decision to transport the patient with a suicide attempt refusing care in the Cape Town Metropole, Western Cape: A survey based on the Mental Healthcare Act of 2002 |
| title_sort | prehospital care providers decision to transport the patient with a suicide attempt refusing care in the cape town metropole western cape a survey based on the mental healthcare act of 2002 |
| topic | Emergency Medicine Transport services |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16478 |
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