Development and Validation of a Prediction Tool for Reoffending Risk in Domestic Violence.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Current risk assessment tools for domestic violence against family members were developed with small and selected samples, have low accuracy with few external validations, and do not report key performance measures.

Objective

To develop new tools to assess risk of reoffending among individuals who have perpetrated domestic violence.

Design, setting, and participants

This prognostic study investigated a national cohort of all individuals arrested for domestic violence between 1998 and 2013 in Sweden using information from multiple national registers, including National Crime Register, National Patient Register, Longitudinal Integrated Database for Health Insurance and Labour Market Studies Register, and Multi-Generation Register. Data were analyzed from Augu

SUBMITTER: Yu R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10372708 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature