Clinical trial NCT03762356: Questionnaire About Individual's Insight/Awareness of Risk of Violence
Official title: What Factors Are Important When Assessing an Individual's Insight/Awareness of Their Own Violence Risk?
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: WITHDRAWN
Conditions: Risk Behavior, Health
Violence
Risk Behavior
Keywords: Insight
Awareness
Violence
Professional views
Risk to others
Lead sponsor: Bournemouth University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust
First posted: 2018-12-03
Enrollment: 0
Sex: MALE
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: OTHER
Time perspective: OTHER
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: 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

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.

Eligibility criteria: 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

Primary outcomes:
measure: Questionnaire responses that measure levels of insight or awareness of violence
timeFrame: 10 minutes
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
Study officials:
affiliation: Chief Investigator
name: Joe Lowenstein, BSc MSc DClinPsy
role: STUDY_CHAIR
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