Questionnaire About Individual's Insight/Awareness of Risk of Violence

What Factors Are Important When Assessing an Individual's Insight/Awareness of Their Own Violence Risk?

Status

Withdrawn

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT03762356

Enrollment

Registered

2018-12-03

Start date

2020-09-30

Completion date

2021-02-01

Last updated

2020-10-30

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Risk Behavior, Risk Behavior, Health, Violence

Keywords

Insight, Awareness, Violence, Professional views, Risk to others

Brief summary

The overall aim of this questionnaire is to gather the views of qualified clinicians on what factors contribute to an individual's insight or awareness into their own violent behaviours. The questionnaire will also explore what type of tool would be useful to develop for use in clinical practice to aid effective risk assessment and management. Brief demographic information will also be gathered.

Detailed description

Despite insight into violence being a factor regularly addressed by professionals in the assessment of future violence occurring research on this concept is sparse. Research instead tends to focus specifically on insight into violence specifically in relation to schizophrenia rather than more broadly in forensic and other clinical settings. What evidence there is suggests that developing an individual's insight or awareness of their own risk of violence is a key factor in reducing the likelihood of them engaging in further acts of violence. Being able to appropriately assess this is key and appears to currently be inconsistent between professionals. In this study, therefore, a questionnaire will be disseminated to professionals working in secure care or a forensic community setting in order to gather their views on what factors contribute to an individual's insight or awareness into their own violent behaviours. All clinicians/professionals who are currently employed and qualified as an Offender Manager, Offender Supervisor, Psychologist, Nurse, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist, Psychiatrist, Prison Officer currently working in a secure care or forensic community setting will be eligible to participate. Individuals with the appropriate qualifications working within private practice in the UK will also be eligible to participate. Those working outside the UK will not be eligible to participate.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

OTHER

Time perspective

OTHER

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

MALE

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* Employed as a qualified as a Psychologist, Nurse, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist, Psychiatrist, Prison Officer or Offender Manager currently working in a secure care or forensic community setting.

Exclusion criteria

* Those working solely in private practice outside of organisations and those who work outside the UK, are not eligible to participate

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Questionnaire responses that measure levels of insight or awareness of violence	10 minutes	Online survey responses as to range of factors identified by clinicians, a consensus on a format of insight tool and to have sufficient information to be able to devise an insight tool that measures level of insight or awareness of violence.

Outcome results