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Published in final edited form as: Psychol Assess. 2012 Jan 16;24(3):685–700. doi: 10.1037/a0026668

Table 7.

Validity of START, HCR-20 and PCL:SV Assessments in Predicting Inpatient Aggression

	Inpatient Aggression

Assessment	Any Aggression		Verbal		Physical – Objects		Physical - Others

	AUC (SE)	95% CI	AUC (SE)	95% CI	AUC (SE)	95% CI	AUC (SE)	95% CI
START

Strength Total Score	.76 (.04)^***	.68–.85	.75 (.05)^***	.66–.84	.77 (.06)^***	.65–.89	.80 (.05)^***	.70–.89
Vulnerability Total Score	.79 (.04)^***	.71–.87	.79 (.04)^***	.70–.87	.80 (.05)^***	.71–.89	.77 (.05)^***	.66–.88
Violence Risk Estimate (n = 119)	.80 (.04)^***	.72–.88	.78 (.04)^***	.69–.86	.84 (.04)^***	.76–.92	.85 (.04)^***	.77–.93

HCR-20

Historical Subscale Score	.73 (.05)^***	.64–.82	.71 (.05)^***	.62–.80	.66 (.06)^***	.54–.78	.69 (.06)^***	.58–.81
Clinical Subscale Score	.74 (.05)^***	.65–.83	.74 (.05)^***	.65–.83	.78 (.05)^***	.68–.89	.71 (.06)^***	.58–.83
Risk Management Subscale Score	.77 (.04)^***	.69–.86	.77 (.05)^***	.69–.86	.77 (.05)^***	.66–.87	.75 (.05)^***	.65–.85
Total Score	.80 (.04)^***	.72–.88	.80 (.04)^***	.72–.88	.79 (.05)^***	.69–.89	.75 (.05)^***	.65–.86
Violence Risk Estimate	.79 (.04)^***	.71–.87	.74 (.06)^***	.62–.86	.70 (.10)^***	.51–.89	.77 (.07)^***	.64–.90

PCL:SV

Total Score	.75 (.05)^***	.67–.84	.74 (.05)^***	.65 – .83	.63 (.07)^***	.55–.76	.74 (.06)^***	.63–.85

Note. N = 120 unless otherwise specified. Values are Areas under the Curve (AUC) for Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curves. SE = Standard Error. CI = Confidence Interval. Strength total scores are reverse coded such that lower scores indicate greater strength.

p < .05.

^**

p < .01.

^***

p < .001.