[The attitude of 200 hospitalized psychiatric patients and their doctors toward treatment (author's transl)].

1 week after their admission to a psychiatric clinic, a representative sample of 200 patients were interviewed as to their attitude toward hospitalization and their opinion of the doctors, nursing personnel, psychopharmaca, as well as the industrial- and creative occupational therapy they underwent. They were also questioned as to the general physical environment. At the same time, the 15 assistants treating these patients were asked their opinion of the attitudes of their patients toward some of the above points. The patients answered less favorably with regard to their wards (particularly if these were closed) and with regard to the hospitalization in general, but they answered more favorably reacted more positively to their doctors and nurses than to the various methods of treatment (counseling, psychopharmaca, occupational therapy). Information on the patients from their doctors concerning noticeable side effects of psychopharmaca proved insufficient. There was no difference in the patients attitude toward occupational therapy that consisted of unpaid industrial work and the creative occupational therapy. Women were more critical than men. The opinions of the patients were in good agreement with those of the doctors.