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. 2020 Sep 3;2020(9):CD007668. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD007668.pub3

Summary of findings 8. Psychosocial risk management ('Resettle' programme) versus treatment‐as‐usual for antisocial personality disorder.

Psychosocial risk management ('Resettle' programme) compared with treatment‐as‐usual (standard probation supervision) for antisocial personality disorder
Patient or population: adults with antisocial personality disorder
Settings: prison and community
Intervention: psychosocial risk management (PSRM 'Resettle' programme)
Comparison: treatment‐as‐usual (standard probation supervision)
Outcomes Anticipated absolute effects (95% CI) Relative effect
(95% CI) No of participants (studies) Certainty of the evidence
(GRADE) Comments
Risk with treatment‐as‐usual alone Risk with psychosocial risk management 'Resettle'
Aggression No data available
Reconviction: total number of official offences recorded (higher number = worse outcome)
Timing of the assessment: 1 year after release from prison
The mean number of official offences recorded for 16 participants in the PSRM group one year after release from prison was 4.13 (SD = 5.78, range = 0 to 22), compared to 5.21 (SD = 3.28, range = 0 to 11) for 19 participants in the TAU group 35 (1 study) ⊕⊝⊝⊝
Very lowa Narrative data only (skewed data), see Table 11
Global state/functioning No data available
Social functioning No data available
Adverse events: death during the study period
Timing of assessment: 2 years after release from prison
29 per 1000 26 per 1000
3 fewer per 1000 (28 fewer to 281 more)
OR 0.89 (0.05 to 14.83) 35 (1 study) ⊕⊝⊝⊝
Very lowa
*The basis for the assumed risk (e.g. the median control group risk across studies) is provided in footnotes. The corresponding risk (and its 95% confidence interval) is based on the assumed risk in the comparison group and the relative effect of the intervention (and its 95% CI).
CI: Confidence interval; OR: Odds ratio; PSRM: Psychosocial risk management; RCT: Randomised controlled trial; SD: Standard deviation; TAU: Treatment‐as‐usual.
GRADE Working Group grades of evidence
High certainty: we are very confident that the true effect lies close to that of the estimate of the effect
Moderate certainty: we are moderately confident in the effect estimate; the true effect is likely to be close to the estimate of the effect, but there is a possibility that it is substantially different
Low certainty: our confidence in the effect estimate is limited; the true effect may be substantially different from the estimate of the effect
Very low certainty: we have very little confidence in the effect estimate; the true effect is likely to be substantially different from the estimate of effect

aEvidence downgraded three levels overall due to high risk of bias (‘blinding of personnel’ bias, ‘blinding of outcome assessors’ bias, ‘incomplete outcome data/attrition’ bias, ‘selective reporting’ bias and 'other' bias; downgraded two levels), and likely imprecision (downgraded one level) due to optimal information size criterion not being met as well as skewed data.