The experience of admission to psychiatric hospital among Chinese adult patients in Hong Kong

BMC Psychiatry

Table 3 Correlations of OCM with C-AES items.

C-AES Item		Spearman's ρ
8	Someone physically tried to make me come into the hospital	0.78**
1	I felt free to do what I wanted about coming into the hospital	0.52**
4	I chose to come into the hospital	0.51**
2	People tried to force me to come into the hospital.	0.48**
7	It was my idea to come into the hospital	0.47**
6	Someone threatened me to get me to come into the hospital	0.46**
10	I was threatened with commitment	0.40**
3	I had enough of a chance to say whether I wanted to come into the hospital	0.36**
15	I had more influence than anyone else on whether I came into the hospital	0.36**
5	I got to say what I wanted about coming into the hospital	0.35**
14	I had a lot of control over whether I went into the hospital	0.29**
11	They said they would make me come into the hospital	0.27**
13	My opinion about coming into the hospital didn't matter	0.22
9	No one seemed to want to know whether I wanted to come into the hospital	0.21
12	No one tried to force me to come into the hospital.	0.18

n = 135.
C – AES, Chinese version of Admission Experience Survey; OCM, Objective coercive measures.
**P < 0.01 (2-tailed)

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