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Sinead
Lambe
sinead.lambe@psych.ox.ac.uk
Sinead
Lambe
sinead.lambe@psych.ox.ac.uk
Schizophrenia, schizotypal and delusional disorders
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Although most people with psychosis are never violent, for a proportion of patients aggression is an important clinical issue. Forensic hospitals provide mental health care to offenders with a psychiatric diagnosis who pose a risk to others. These patients often react aggressively to other people. Forensic hospitals reduce risk to the public by taking patients out of provoking situations and providing treatment. This works in the short term. But when discharged, patients go back into provoking situations and most reoffend. Recent improvements in our understanding of learning and behaviour change could be used to improve treatments aimed at reducing aggression by forensic patients with psychosis.
This is the second study in a three year fellowship funded by the NIHR to develop a new psychological treatment to reduce aggression by forensic patients with psychosis. This study aims to (a) create a new questionnaire measureing the beliefs and thinking that leads to aggression in people with psychosis (b) examine what psychological factors ‘drive’ aggression (i.e. keeps it going).
This study will recruit 1000 patients with psychosis from adult mental health services (approximately half coming from forensic mental health teams and half from community mental teams). We will include participants with and without a history of aggression so we can see how the things that contribute to the presence or absence of aggression. Participants will be asked to complete questionnaires (~45minutes), and provide some brief demographic information. The majority of participants will only answer the questions on a single occasion. However, a small subgroup of around 100 participants will be asked to repeat some of the measures again one week to see how much scores change over time (test retest reliability).
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The recruitment start and end dates are as follows:
Observational type: Cross-sectional;
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You may not be able to take part if:
• Participants identifying as female or non-binary • Insufficient English language to understand and complete questionnaires. • Primary diagnosis of alcohol or drug disorder, personality disorder, or organic syndrome. • History of primarily sexual offending.
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The study is sponsored by University of Oxford and funded by NIHR Academy .
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