Violence in psychosis: Estimating the predictive validity of readily accessible clinical information in a community sample

Readily available clinical information allowed the prediction of assault over 2 years, in a sample of general psychiatric patients with psychosis, with a level of predictive accuracy comparable to that described using more detailed risk assessment tools. The information used in the predictive model was: age, sex, having committed an assault in the last 2 years (self-report) and having used any drug in the last year (self-report).