The Predictive Properties of Violence Risk Instruments May Increase by Adding Items Assessing Sleep

The Predictive Properties of Violence Risk Instruments May Increase by Adding Items Assessing Sleep

Background: The psychometric instruments developed for short-term prediction of violence in psychiatric inpatients do not include variables assessing sleep. Disturbances in sleep may precede aggression in this setting. We investigated whether adding information on sleep improved the predictive prope...

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Main Authors: Knut Langsrud, Arne Vaaler, Gunnar Morken, Håvard Kallestad, Roger Almvik, Tom Palmstierna, Ismail C. Güzey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychiatry
Subjects:
prediction
sleep
aggression
violence
psychiatry
inpatients
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00323/full

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