Seham Mansour Alyousef, Sami Abdulrahman Alhamidi
Psychiatric Mental Health Nurses' Perceptions and Experiences of Inpatient Mental Health Care Safety Culture in Saudi Arabia
Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association
netherlands many countries victims intentionally committed violent crimes may apply state compensation offender unknown unable pay damages crime state compensation scheme run dutch violent offences compensation fund vocf lawyers work fund need evaluate applicants eligibility state compensation basis two criteria 1 plausibility applicants victimization story 2 severity injury sustained applicant whether criteria fulfilled largely left discretion lawyer evaluates application discretionary power makes decisionmaking process prone biased outcomes inspired previous research study investigated whether information mental health care providers psychiatrists clinical psychologists serves potential source bias although type information may sometimes used evaluate applicants eligibility compensation cases affect outcome evaluation potential unreliability statistical association availability information mental health care providers adjudication state compensation therefore expected analyzing 246 applications submitted dutch vocf july 1st 2016 july 1st 2017 study tested empirical validity expectation results indicated availability information mental health care providers associated adjudication state compensation finding discussed view literature heuristic thinking biased decision making studys limitations