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If someone fit none, then mental illness was highly unlikely to be predictive of violence.
Factors such as positive psychotic symptoms, medication non-adherence, alcohol or psychoactive substance abuse and antisocial personality were found to be predictive of violence.
Although the MATRICS composite was predictive of violence the Neurocognitive composite without the addition of the Social Cognitive Domain was not.
The START has been shown to have good psychometric properties and to be predictive of violence when used as part of the assessment for mental health review boards in a forensic hospital [ 45].
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However, several meta-analyses on the predictive validity of violence assessment instruments have found that structured clinical judgment and actuarial instruments perform at comparable levels of predictive accuracy [ 33, 34].
The predictive nature of violence on mental disorder is in keeping with international evidence.
This systematic review and meta-analysis examined the predictive validity of violence risk assessment tools from 73 samples involving 24 847 individuals in 13 countries.
67 By comparison with common medical prognostic tools, it is possible to argue that the predictive accuracy of violence risk assessment needs to be higher because of these consequences, which extend beyond the person to other people.
However, more recent research suggests that the risk factors predictive of outpatient violence are also predictive for inpatient violence.
Because, we all know how predictive of future violence the use of a substance that slows down a person's reaction time and makes them hungry is.
However, removal of the self-harm items did not result in a significantly improved predictive accuracy for the measure, and more recent work [ 16] has shown that some forensic assessments, including the HCR-20 and SAPROF, are predictive of both violence and self-harming behaviour.
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