EU-VIORMED
Research type
Research Study
Full title
The European Study on Risk Factors for Violence in Mental Disorders and Forensic Care: A Multicentre Project
IRAS ID
247487
Contact name
Marco Picchioni
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
King's College London
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 11 months, 31 days
Research summary
The fundamental objective of the international multi-centre EU-VIORMED project is to improve the quality of forensic care across Europe. This will be achieved by identifying, describing and contrasting areas of best practice in forensic psychiatric care across the EU, with a focus on generating new data on violence and self-harm risk assessment.
In Work Package 2, the subject of this application, EU-VIORMED aims to identify factors associated with the risk of violence to self and others in patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD) and to assess two tools that predict violence risk, to guide care and treatment planning. To achieve this two clinical studies will be conducted across five EU countries, one the UK.
The objective of Study 1 is to identify risk factors for violence to self and others in patients with SSDs. The objective of Study 2 is to assess two risk assessment tools predicting violence risk.
Study 1 will compare using a retrospective -control design, patients with SSDs with a history of violence to non-violent patients with SSDs.
Study 2 in will be a prospective cohort study with 12-month follow-up to test the predictive validity of the leading clinical judgement risk assessment guide for interpersonal violence, the HCR-20, and an entirely new web-based risk assessment tool, the FoVOx, developed by one of our group.Cases will be patients with SSD, aged 18-65 years, who have committed at least one violent act. Controls will be patients with SSD who have never committed such violent acts. Except for self-harm and suicide, the definition of violence used in this study is in line with that provided by the World Health Organization.
REC name
South West - Frenchay Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
18/SW/0264
Date of REC Opinion
10 Dec 2018
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion