Need for education of psychiatric evaluation of offenders with mental disorders: A questionnaire survey for Japanese designated psychiatrists

Table 1 Comparison between designated psychiatrists with recent engagement of administrative involuntary hospitalization consultation and without experience in the experience of ways of learning administrative involuntary hospitalization consultation

		Engaged in AIH consultation in the latest year		P value
		Without	With
Attending seminars held by the government (except mandatory seminars for licensing)	Yes	8	27	NS
	No	118	366
Attending seminars held by universities, associations, hospitals, etc.	Yes	41	137	NS
	No	90	277
Taught by a supervisor, employer, or senior psychiatrists	Yes	107	365	NS
	No	26	55
Reading textbook, guidelines, academic papers	Yes	71	233	NS
	No	57	180
Visiting an AIH consultation of a senior psychiatrist	Yes	84	303	0.037
	No	49	114
Asking for advice from a senior psychiatrist exhibiting the patient’s information prior to conducting the consultation	Yes	42	223	< 0.001
	No	86	189
Consulting with the other designated psychiatrist in AIH consultation	Yes	57	193	NS
	No	75	216
Asking for comments from a senior psychiatrist exhibiting them your report post AIH consultation	Yes	28	140	0.006
	No	102	268
Attending a clinical conference with your case post AIH consultation	Yes	18	70	NS
	No	113	338
Learning through medical treatment of a case subjected to AIH	Yes	112	341	NS
	No	23	75

χ² test. AIH: Administrative involuntary hospitalization; NS: Not statistically significant.

Table 2 Comparison between respondents specializing in general psychiatry and emergency psychiatry in their opinions toward methods of learning administrative involuntary hospitalization consultation

Item	Contents	n	Mean	SD	Levene’s test for variance			Unpaired t test
					F value	P value	Variance equality	t value	u	P value
Attending seminars held by the government (except mandatory seminars for licensing)	General	428	6.92	2.180	0.248	0.618	Yes	-1.537	495	NS
	Emergency	69	7.35	2.078
Attending seminars held by universities, associations, hospitals, etc.	General	429	6.85	2.045	0.131	0.718	Yes	-1.576	497	NS
	Emergency	70	7.26	1.886
Taught by a supervisor, employer, or senior psychiatrist	General	429	7.01	1.912	0.298	0.585	Yes	-1.237	497	NS
	Emergency	70	7.31	1.699
Reading textbook, guidelines, academic papers	General	428	6.86	1.863	0.539	0.463	Yes	-1.866	496	NS
	Emergency	70	7.30	1.688
Visiting an AIH consultation of a senior psychiatrist	General	428	7.29	1.884	0.612	0.434	Yes	-1.307	496	NS
	Emergency	70	7.60	1.545
Asking for advice from a senior psychiatrist exhibiting the subject’s information prior to conducting the consultation	General	429	6.56	2.038	0.483	0.487	Yes	-1.437	497	NS
	Emergency	70	6.94	2.091
Consulting with the other designated psychiatrist in AIH consultation	General	429	6.01	2.277	40.508	0.034	No	-.065	86.831	NS
	Emergency	70	6.03	2.621
Asking for comments from a senior psychiatrist exhibiting them your report after AIH consultation	General	430	6.51	2.016	0.000	0.992	Yes	-2.163	498	0.031
	Emergency	70	7.07	1.958
Attending a clinical conference with your case after AIH consultation	General	430	6.63	1.961	10.242	0.266	Yes	-3.167	497	0.002
	Emergency	69	7.42	1.666
Learning through medical treatment of a case subjected to AIH	General	429	6.85	2.100	0.639	0.424	Yes	-2.380	497	0.018
	Emergency	70	7.49	1.808

AIH: Administrative involuntary hospitalization; NS: Not statistically significant; u: Degrees of freedom.