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Disturbing behavior: A study of incident reports

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Over 5,000 incident reports from a large state hospital were factor-analyzed, and actuarial risk-rates were calculated for the resulting nine factors. Incident risk-rates are presented for sex, race, marital status, and diagnosis. Findings include: (1) young, single males with deferred diagnosis are high incident risk; and (2) schizophrenic incident rates, when corrected for length of stay, are relatively low.

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  1. Missouri Institute of Psychiatry, University of Missouri School of Medicine, 5400 Arsenal Street, 63139, St. Louis, Missouri

    Richard C. Evenson Ph.D. (Assistant Professor), Ivan W. Sletten M.D. (Professor), Harold Altman M.D., M.P.H. (Clinical Associate Professor) & Marjorie L. Brown M.S. (Assistant Professor)

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Evenson, R.C., Sletten, I.W., Altman, H. et al. Disturbing behavior: A study of incident reports. Psych Quar 48, 266–275 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01584689

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