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    Short-term clinical prediction of assaultive behavior: artifacts of research methods

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    Authors
    Apperson, L. Joy
    Mulvey, Edward P.
    Lidz, Charles W.
    UMass Chan Affiliations
    Department of Psychiatry
    Document Type
    Journal Article
    Publication Date
    1993-09-01
    Keywords
    Adult
    Age Factors
    Commitment of Mentally Ill
    Dangerous Behavior
    Female
    Follow-Up Studies
    *Hospitalization
    Hospitals, Psychiatric
    Humans
    Length of Stay
    Male
    Mental Disorders
    Probability
    *Research Design
    Social Isolation
    Time Factors
    *Violence
    Health Services Research
    Mental and Social Health
    Psychiatry
    Psychiatry and Psychology
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    http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/reprint/150/9/1374
    Abstract
    OBJECTIVE: The apparent accuracy of predictions of assaultive behavior in psychiatric inpatients varies substantially, depending on the method used to study the prediction. The authors explored the effects of different measures and sampling strategies on short-term clinical predictions of dangerousness. METHOD: The index subjects were patients who were rated by intake clinicians as potentially highly assaultive on the ward (N = 32) and patients who were involuntarily committed on grounds of danger to others (N = 32). The respective comparison groups comprised patients predicted by clinicians not to be assaultive (N = 32) and patients committed for reasons other than danger to others (N = 40). The text of unit meetings and data from chart reviews were used to determine the occurrence and dates of violent acts, seclusions for violent acts or threats, and violent threats. RESULTS: There was a significant difference in the rate of inpatient violence between the subjects rated at admission as potentially assaultive (75.0%) and patients rated as not potentially assaultive (12.5%), but the difference in the rates of violence between the patients who were (56.0%) and were not (42.0%) involuntarily committed as dangerous to others was not significant. Most of the violent acts occurred relatively late in the hospitalization, but seclusions occurred almost exclusively in the initial stages of hospitalization. CONCLUSIONS: The reported accuracy of clinical predictions of assaultive behavior is markedly affected by the choice of sampling strategy, comparison group, outcome measures, and follow-up period. Including seclusion and violent threats in the outcome variable appears to lead to deceptive findings.
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    Am J Psychiatry. 1993 Sep;150(9):1374-9.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/45549
    PubMed ID
    8352349
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