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Opportunities and challenges of self-binding directives: An interview study with mental health service users and professionals in the Netherlands.
Melle, L.
Ham, L.
Voskes, Y.
Widdershoven, G.
Scholten, M.
2023. Opportunities and challenges of self-binding directives: An interview study with mental health service users and professionals in the Netherlands. BMC Medical Ethics 24 (38). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12910-023-00915-y
Self-binding directives (SBDs) are psychiatric advance directives that include the possibility for service users to consent in advance to compulsory care in future mental health crises. Legal provisions for SBDs exist in the Netherlands since 2008 and were updated in 2020. While ethicists and legal scholars have identified several benefits and risks of SBDs, few data on stakeholder perspectives on SBDs are available.