Temporal reliability of psychological assessments for patients in a special hospital with severe personality disorder: A preliminary note
| dc.contributor.author | Duggan, Conor | |
| dc.contributor.author | Hogue, Todd E. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-09-20T16:00:26Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-09-20T16:00:26Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2005 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Tyrer, P., Cooper, S., Seivewright, H., Duggan, C., Rao, B. & Hogue, T. E. (2005). Temporal reliability of psychological assessments for patients in a special hospital with severe personality disorder: A preliminary note. Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, 15 (2), pp.87-92. | |
| dc.identifier.other | 10.1002/cbm.40 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12904/9473 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Background: The new programme for assessing those with dangerous and severe personality disorder relies heavily on psychological assessments of personality disorder and risk. Methods: The temporal reliability of assessments of psychopathy (PCL-R), risk (HCR-20) and personality was assessed using the International Personality Disorder Examination (IPDE) in 15 randomly selected male prisoners in a high secure hospital carried out at intervals varying between a mean of nine and 19 months after initial assessments by a variety of assessors. Results: Using the intra-class correlation coefficient the agreement varied between 0.57 (HCR-20), 0.58 (PCL-R) and 0.38-0.70 for IPDE personality disorders, with the best agreement for antisocial personality disorder (0.70). Comment: These levels of agreement are consistent with other recent work on temporal reliability of personality instruments but are a little too low for confidence in these measures alone in the assessment process. © Whurr Publishers Ltd. | |
| dc.description.uri | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cbm.40/full | |
| dc.subject | Antisocial personality disorder | |
| dc.subject | Dangerous and severe personality disorder | |
| dc.subject | Personality tests | |
| dc.subject | Prisoners | |
| dc.title | Temporal reliability of psychological assessments for patients in a special hospital with severe personality disorder: A preliminary note | |
| dc.type | Article | |
| html.description.abstract | Background: The new programme for assessing those with dangerous and severe personality disorder relies heavily on psychological assessments of personality disorder and risk. Methods: The temporal reliability of assessments of psychopathy (PCL-R), risk (HCR-20) and personality was assessed using the International Personality Disorder Examination (IPDE) in 15 randomly selected male prisoners in a high secure hospital carried out at intervals varying between a mean of nine and 19 months after initial assessments by a variety of assessors. Results: Using the intra-class correlation coefficient the agreement varied between 0.57 (HCR-20), 0.58 (PCL-R) and 0.38-0.70 for IPDE personality disorders, with the best agreement for antisocial personality disorder (0.70). Comment: These levels of agreement are consistent with other recent work on temporal reliability of personality instruments but are a little too low for confidence in these measures alone in the assessment process. © Whurr Publishers Ltd. |