Validation of the HCR-20 Scale for Assessing Risk of Violent Behavior in Israeli Psychiatric Inpatients.

CONCLUSIONS: Appropriate psychometric properties of the HCR-20 suggest that it can serve as a useful measure of the risk of violent behavior in psychiatric settings in Israel. Further research is necessary to confirm norms and cut-off scores, using a larger representative sample. PMID: 26431417 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences - Category: Psychiatry Tags: Isr J Psychiatry Relat Sci Source Type: research