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Descriptor English: Mental Competency
Descriptor Spanish: Competencia Mental
Descriptor competencia mental
Entry term(s) incompetencia mental
Scope note: Capacidad para comprender la naturaleza y el efecto de la acción que el individuo está efectuando. (Traducción libre del original: Black's Law Dictionary, 6th ed).
Descriptor Portuguese: Competência Mental
Descriptor French: Capacité mentale
Entry term(s): Aptitude intellectuelle
Aptitude mentale
Capacité intellectuelle
Compétence
Compétence intellectuelle
Compétence mentale
Inaptitude intellectuelle
Inaptitude mentale
Incapacité intellectuelle
Incapacité mentale
Incompétence intellectuelle
Incompétence mentale
Tree number(s): F01.590
F02.410
I01.880.604.583.530
N03.706.535.625
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D016743
Scope note: The ability to understand the nature and effect of the act in which the individual is engaged. (From Black's Law Dictionary, 6th ed).
Annotation: in mental retard or organic or psychiat mental disord; coord IM with concomitant disord /psychol (IM); competency to consent: coord IM with INFORMED CONSENT (IM)
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
LJ législation et jurisprudence
PX psychologie
ST normes
Related: Compréhension MeSH
Consentement libre et éclairé MeSH
Irresponsabilité pénale MeSH
Refus du traitement MeSH
Tuteurs légaux MeSH
DeCS ID: 29986
Unique ID: D016743
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1992/01/01
Date of Entry: 1991/07/26
Revision Date: 2002/07/03
Capacité mentale - Preferred
Concept UI M0025498
Preferred term Capacité mentale
Entry term(s) Aptitude intellectuelle
Aptitude mentale
Capacité intellectuelle
Compétence intellectuelle
Compétence mentale
Incapacité mentale - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M0025500
Preferred term Incapacité mentale
Entry term(s) Inaptitude intellectuelle
Inaptitude mentale
Incapacité intellectuelle
Incompétence intellectuelle
Incompétence mentale
Compétence - Broader
Concept UI M0025499
Preferred term Compétence



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