TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2004//
TI  - Predicting inpatient violence in acute psychiatric wards using the Brøset-Violence-Checklist: a multicentre prospective cohort study
JO  - Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
A1  - Abderhalden, Christoph
A1  - Needham, I.
A1  - Miserez, B.
A1  - Almvik, R.
A1  - Dassen, Theo W. N.
A1  - Haug, H-J
A1  - Fischer, J. E.
SP  - 422
EP  - 427
VL  - 11
IS  - 4
N2  - The Norwegian Brøset-Violence-Checklist (BVC) is one of the few instruments that is suitable for short-term prediction of violence of psychiatric inpatients by nursing staff in routine care. The instrument assesses the presence or absence of six behaviours or states frequently observed before a violent incident. We conducted a study to elucidate whether the predictive properties of the BVC are retained in other psychiatric settings than the original north-Norwegian validation dataset. During their admission period, 219 consecutive patients admitted to six acute psychiatric wards were assessed as to the risk for attack using a German version of the BVC (BVC-G). Data on preventive measures were concurrently collected. Aggressive incidents were registered using an instrument equivalent to the Staff Observation of Aggression Scale (SOAS-R). Fourteen attacks towards staff were observed with incident severity ranging from 5 to 18 of a possible 22 points. BVC-G sensitivity was 64.3%, the specificity 93.9%, the positive predictive value 11.1%, and the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve 0.88. In some false positive cases intense preventive measures had been implemented. The predictive accuracy of the BVC-G proved consistent with the Norwegian original.<p /> <p>Language: en</p> 
LA  - en
SN  - 1351-0126
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2850.2004.00733.x
ID  - ref1
ER  -