First, the small sample of practice settings and patient population limit the generalizability of the results.
We specified a priori that compliance was likely to be an important contributor to the effect of group cognitive behavioural therapy, and designed a trial that was sufficiently pragmatic to allow estimation of these effects in a generalizable sample and range of settings [ 2].
The SAKK C-SGA should be further tested in larger patient samples, a variety of settings, and over longer periods of time to include outcome data.
We allocated up to three points each for most recent studies, population sampled, country coverage and for the range of settings sampled, and deducted one point for clinic only samples due to the potential for bias.
We allocated up to three points each for most recent studies, population sampled, country coverage and for the range of settings sampled, and deducted one point for drug treatment only samples due to the potential for bias.
After retrieving over 250 reports, 15 reports met inclusion criteria and provided 134 effect sizes (92 unadjusted and 42 adjusted) based on 20 separate samples in a variety of settings, including school, community, and juvenile justice settings.
The HCR-20 has repeatedly been shown to be a robust predictor of institutional and community violence in mentally disordered samples across a range of settings and international centers [ 9, 16, 33- 39].
Within each location, we sampled from a range of settings including: schools/colleges; youth work services targeting young people not in education or training; youth organisations; a supported housing project for young people living independently from their families; and informal networks.
We will assess clinical variation across studies by comparing the distribution of important characteristics relating to participants (eg, age), study settings (eg, single or sample of medical practice or clinic settings) and country income level according to the World (high, middle or low).
The chapter also provides an overview of the design, function, and operation of the main types of coring equipment that can be used to sample sediments from a variety of settings including lakes, the ocean, peat bogs, soils, and permafrost.
