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?

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.

Study Overview

• Status: Withdrawn
• Conditions: Risk Behavior; Violence; Risk Behavior, Health

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.

• Study Type: Observational

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (ADULT, OLDER_ADULT)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: Male

• 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

Description

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

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Questionnaire responses that measure levels of insight or awareness of violence	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.	10 minutes

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Bournemouth University
• Collaborators: Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust
• Investigators: Study Chair: Joe Lowenstein, BSc MSc DClinPsy, Chief Investigator

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (ANTICIPATED): September 1, 2020
• Primary Completion (ANTICIPATED): February 1, 2021
• Study Completion (ANTICIPATED): February 1, 2021

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: October 3, 2018
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 30, 2018
• First Posted (ACTUAL): December 3, 2018

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (ACTUAL): October 30, 2020
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 29, 2020
• Last Verified: October 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Violence; Awareness; Insight; Professional views; Risk to others
• Other Study ID Numbers: BournemouthU

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No