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Judicial involuntary admission under the Mental Health Act in Goa, India: profile, outcome and implications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Anil Rane ,
Abhijit Nadkarni ,
Shilpa Waikar  and
H. A. Borker
Anil Rane
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Goa, India, email dranilrane@gmail.com
Abhijit Nadkarni
Affiliation:
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Shilpa Waikar
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Goa, India
H. A. Borker
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Goa, India
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Reception order (RO) by a magistrate is a mode of involuntary admission provided under the Indian Mental Health Act of 1987. To the best of our knowledge there has been no evaluation of this provision in clinical practice. The present paper is a descriptive study through retrospective case-note review of patients admitted by way of RO to a tertiary care hospital in Goa. Compared with those admitted voluntarily, those admitted by RO tended to be single, middle aged (40–60 years old) and non-Goan; on average they had a significantly longer hospital stay than voluntarily admitted patients. Non-affective psychosis and substance use disorders were the more common diagnoses. While admissions by RO serve a useful role in bringing patients who are not under proper care into the mental healthcare system, they do not address the issue of aftercare.

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International Psychiatry , Volume 9 , Issue 4 , November 2012 , pp. 98 - 101
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