Table 1.

Adverse events in psychiatric patients randomised to receive joint crisis plan (intervention) or standard treatment (control). Figures are numbers (percentages) of patients

	Intervention group (n=80)	Control group (n=80)	P value*
Declined further participation	5 (6)	4 (5)	1.0
Self harm:
None	73 (99)	69 (91)	0.09
Not resulting in admission or close observations	1 (1)	5 (6)
Resulting in admission or close observations	0 (0)	2 (3)
Violence:
None	71 (96)	65 (85)	0.03
Not major†	1 (1)	9 (12)
Major‡	2 (3)	2 (3)

^*Fisher's exact test.

^†Incidents requiring attendance of police or seclusion on ward or special civil law admissions to place of safety.

^‡Homicide, sex attacks, attempted or actual serious assault.