Title
Developing a clinically useful actuarial tool for assessing violence risk
UMMS Affiliation
Department of Psychiatry
Publication Date
2000-05-29
Document Type
Article
Subjects
Actuarial Analysis; Adolescent; Adult; Algorithms; Female; Hospitalization; Humans; Male; Mental Disorders; Risk Assessment; Risk Factors; Violence
Disciplines
Psychiatry
Abstract
BACKGROUND: A new actuarial method for violence risk assessment--the Iterative Classification Tree (ICT)--has become available. It has a high degree of accuracy but can be time and resource intensive to administer.
AIMS: To increase the clinical utility of the ICT method by restricting the risk factors used to generate the actuarial tool to those commonly available in hospital records or capable of being routinely assessed in clinical practice.
METHOD: A total of 939 male and female civil psychiatric patients between 18 and 40 years old were assessed on 106 risk factors in the hospital and monitored for violence to others during the first 20 weeks after discharge.
RESULTS: The ICT classified 72.6% of the sample as either low risk (less than half of the sample's base rate of violence) or high risk (more than twice the sample's base rate of violence).
CONCLUSIONS: A clinically useful actuarial method exists to assist in violence risk assessment.
Source
Br J Psychiatry. 2000 Apr;176:312-9.
Journal/Book/Conference Title
The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science
Related Resources
PubMed ID
10827877
Repository Citation
Monahan J, Steadman HJ, Appelbaum PS, Robbins PC, Mulvey EP, Silver E, Roth LH, Grisso T. (2000). Developing a clinically useful actuarial tool for assessing violence risk. Psychiatry Publications and Presentations. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/psych_pp/257