Development of two psychological experience questionnaires for screening violence-related mental health disorders of non-psychiatric inpatients.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Increased violent events happen in the general hospitals in China and yet non-psychiatric departments do not have tools for violence-tendency screening. METHODS:The current study developed and evaluated two Inpatient Psychological Experience Questionnaires (IPEQs) for the screening of violence-related six mental health disorders: (Inpatient Psychological Experience Questionnaire-1 (IPEQ-1): anxiety, depression and suicidality; Inpatient Psychological Experience Questionnaire-2 (IPEQ-2): paranoid personality disorder, emotionally unstable personality disorder and histrionic personality disorder). Two initial IPEQs (IPEQ-1: 37 items and IPEQ-2: 30 items) were developed and assessed by domain experts. Then 1210 inpatients were recruited and divided into three groups (160, 450 and 6

SUBMITTER: Meng Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7249322 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature