'No Robust Evidence Yet As To Whether Community Treatment Orders Are Beneficial Or Harmful To Patients' Says New Institute Of Psychiatry Report
This report represents the most comprehensive and thorough review of research into international experiences of using compulsory treatment orders, summarising evidence from 72 data-based empirical studies undertaken in six countries over the last thirty years. Evidence was available from the US, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Israel.
It provides a synthesis of data-based research evidence from other countries where CTO legislation already exists. A range of designs has been used to evaluate CTOs, but research in this area has been beset by conceptual, practical and methodological problems, and the general quality of the empirical evidence is poor.
Dr Rachel Churchill, a Senior Lecturer and psychiatric epidemiologist at the Institute comments on the report's main findings: "On the basis of existing evidence, the effects of CTOs are difficult to gauge and, although stakeholders express both positive and negative views about their use, it is not possible to state whether CTOs are beneficial or harmful to patients."
The report was funded by a grant from the Department of Health and is now available to download from the Institute of Psychiatry website at: http://www.iop.kcl.ac.uk.
The Mental Health Bill, which is currently passing through Parliament, proposes the introduction of the use of Community Treatment Orders. Researchers from the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London will present their top line findings to MPs and Peers from their new report: 'Experiences of International Community Treatment Orders', between 11am and 12pm, Thursday 8 March 2007. The event is being held in Committee Room 16 of the House of Commons.
Institute of Psychiatry
The Institute of Psychiatry is part of King's College London and closely affiliated to the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. The Institute is a world-renowned centre for treatment, research and training in psychiatry and mental health. The organisation is involved in pioneering new and improved ways of understanding and treating mental illness and brain disease. Its wide-ranging field of work includes depression, trauma, eating disorders, brain imaging, genetics and psychosis. http://www.iop.kcl.ac.uk
King's College London
King's College London is the fourth oldest university in England with more than 13,700 undergraduates and nearly 5,600 graduate students in nine schools of study based at five London campuses. It is a member of the Russell Group: a coalition of the UK's major research-based universities. The College has had 24 of its subject-areas awarded the highest rating of 5* and 5 for research quality, demonstrating excellence at an international level, and it has recently received an excellent result in its audit by the Quality Assurance Agency. King's is in the top group of UK universities for research earnings, with income from grants and contracts of more than £100 million, and has an annual turnover of more than 363 million. http://www.kcl.ac.uk
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