Predictive validity of the HCR-20 for inpatient self-harm

Few instruments have been developed to assess the risk of self-harm by psychiatric patients and the evidence for their predictive validity is limited. Given that individuals who self-harm may also engage in other-directed aggression, and that the behaviour can be a precursor to violence, we tested whether, and for which groups, the commonly used violence risk assessment HCR-20 demonstrated predictive validity for self-harm.

Source: Comprehensive Psychiatry - July 10, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Laura E. O'Shea, Marco M. Picchioni, Fiona L. Mason, Philip A. Sugarman, Geoffrey L. Dickens Source Type: research