EAT-PAD: Educating about psychiatric advance directives in India.

CONCLUSIONS:: EAT scores can be used as an approximate measure of the patient's ability to understand and retain information which is a part of decisional capacity. Types of facilitation can help in understanding patient's ability to communicate their choices. Service providers may find EAT a time-effective tool for uniformly educating service users regarding PADs and indirectly assessing competence.
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Source: The International Journal of Social Psychiatry - April 3, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Philip S, Chandran D, Stezin A, Viswanathaiah GC, Gowda GS, Moirangthem S, Kumar CN, Math SB Tags: Int J Soc Psychiatry Source Type: research