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Evaluation of risk by patients' and with clinicians' ratings: A CORE‐OM and CORE‐A investigation
Author(s) -
Bedford Alan,
Lukic Goran,
Tibbles Jennifer
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
clinical psychology and psychotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.315
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1099-0879
pISSN - 1063-3995
DOI - 10.1002/cpp.714
Subject(s) - psychology , core (optical fiber) , risk assessment , clinical psychology , materials science , computer security , computer science , composite material
While Whewell and Bonanno reported significant relationships between therapists' ratings of risk and patients' ratings of categorized Clinical Outcome in Routine Evaluation‐Outcome Measures (CORE‐OM) risk items, Rowsell and Stennett‐Cox found that only two non‐risk items of the total 34 CORE‐OM items correlated significantly with reported risk behaviours. The current study of 870 patients examined the intercorrelations of the CORE‐OM item matrix, including the 28 non‐risk items, and their correlations with the Risk domain items. Additionally, CORE‐Assessment clinicians' risk ratings were compared with the patients' risk self‐ratings. The results differed from the findings of Rowsell and Stennett‐Cox and provided validatory evidence supplementing that of Whewell and Bonanno. The Harm to Self items appeared to be of particular behavioural significance. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Key Practitioner Message: • Clinicians' ratings of Suicide risk and Self‐harm were significantly related to patients' self‐ratings on the Harm to Self sub‐domain items. • Clinicians' ratings of Risk to others were significantly related to patients' self‐ratings on the Harm to Others sub‐domain items.