Violence prevention in psychiatry: an umbrella review of interventions in general and forensic psychiatry.

ABSTRACT: Relative risks of violence in psychiatric patients are high compared to the general population and existing evidence in non-psychiatric populations may not translate to reductions in violence in psychiatric populations. We searched 10 databases including Medline, EMBASE, CINAHL and Scopus, from inception until August 2015 for systematic reviews and meta-analyses of violence prevention interventions in psychiatry. Reviews were included if they used a hard outcome measure (i.e. police or hospital recorded violence, or reincarceration) and contained randomized or non-randomized controlled studies. Five reviews met our inclusion criteria (n = 8876 patients in total), of which four received a GRADE rating of 'low' or 'very low'. Three randomized studies (n = 636) reported that the

SUBMITTER: Wolf A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6396870 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature