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The Italian admission experience survey: A factor analytic study on a sample of 156 acutely hospitalized psychiatric patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

F. Trobia ,
G. Mandarelli ,
L. Tarsitani ,
E. De Pisa ,
M. Pompili ,
P. Girardi ,
M. Biondi  and
S. Ferracuti
F. Trobia
Affiliation:
Psychiatry residency training program, faculty of medicine and psychology, Sapienza university of Rome, NESMOS neurosciences, mental health and sensory organs, unit of psychiatry, Sant’Andrea hospital of Rome, Rome, Italy
G. Mandarelli
Affiliation:
Department of neurology and psychiatry, Sapienza university of Rome, Rome, Italy
L. Tarsitani
Affiliation:
Department of neurology and psychiatry, Sapienza university of Rome, Rome, Italy
E. De Pisa
Affiliation:
Psychiatry residency training program, faculty of medicine and psychology, Sapienza university of Rome, NESMOS neurosciences, mental health and sensory organs, unit of psychiatry, Sant’Andrea hospital of Rome, Rome, Italy
M. Pompili
Affiliation:
Psychiatry residency training program, faculty of medicine and psychology, Sapienza university of Rome, NESMOS neurosciences, mental health and sensory organs, unit of psychiatry, Sant’Andrea hospital of Rome, Rome, Italy
P. Girardi
Affiliation:
Psychiatry residency training program, faculty of medicine and psychology, Sapienza university of Rome, NESMOS neurosciences, mental health and sensory organs, unit of psychiatry, Sant’Andrea hospital of Rome, Rome, Italy
M. Biondi
Affiliation:
Department of neurology and psychiatry, Sapienza university of Rome, Rome, Italy
S. Ferracuti
Affiliation:
Department of neurology and psychiatry, Sapienza university of Rome, Rome, Italy

Abstract

Introduction

The admission experience survey (AES) is a reliable tool for measuring perceived coercion in mental hospital admission. We developed the Italian AES through translation back-translation and administered it to acutely hospitalized psychiatric patients.

Objectives/Aims

To verify psychometric characteristics of the Italian AES. To Examine the AES factor structure.

Methods

n = 156 acutely hospitalized patients (48% women, 69% voluntary) were recruited in two university hospitals in Rome (Umberto I Policlinic, Sant’Andrea Hospital) and were administered the Italian AES. We conducted a principal component analysis (PCA) with equamax rotation.

Results

Socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of the sample are reported in Table 1. The Italian AES had good internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha = 0.90); Guttmann split-half reliability coefficient was 0.90. AES total score significantly differed between voluntary and involuntary patients (5.08 ± 4.1 vs. 8.1 ± 4.9, P < 0.05). PCA disclosed a three-factor solution explaining 59.3 of the variance. Significant correlations emerged between AES total score and clinical variables (Table 2). Pearson's correlation coefficient disclosed a significant correlation between perceived coercion and psychiatric symptoms severity (BPRS total score).

Conclusions

The Italian version of AES and proposed new factor structure proved reliable.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Type
e-Poster Walk: Mental health care; Mental health policies and migration and mental health of immigrants
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 41 , Issue S1: Abstract of the 25th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2017 , pp. S341 - S342
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2017

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