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David A Pollack1, Bentson H McFarland, Jo M Mahler
1Department of Psychiatry at the Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, 97239, USA.
Abstract:
This study examined the outcomes of patients in a low-intensity, short-duration involuntary outpatient commitment program. After release from inpatient commitment, one group (N = 150) entered an involuntary outpatient commitment program that lasted up to six months; a comparison group (N = 140) was released into the community without further involuntary care. After the analysis adjusted for confounding variables, patients who were in the involuntary outpatient commitment program had greater use of follow-up outpatient and residential services and psychotropic medications than patients in the comparison group. No differences were found between the groups in follow-up acute psychiatric hospitalization or arrests. Low-intensity, short-duration involuntary outpatient commitment appears to have a limited, but important, impact.
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