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Routine Outcome Monitoring (ROM) in Belgian and Dutch forensic patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

K. Goethals
K. Goethals*
Affiliation:
University Forensic Center, Antwerp University Hospital, Edegem, Belgium Forensic Psychiatry, Mental Health Care WNB, Bergen op Zoom, The Netherlands

Abstract

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Introduction

By means of ROM, the efficacy of forensic psychiatric treatment can be measured in domains of risk of recidivism, level of psychopathology, and quality of life. Although, research of the efficacy of this treatment has several methodological pitfalls.

Objectives

To review the literature of ROM in forensic psychiatry; to consider the way of implementing ROM; to present relevant instruments in the domains as mentioned above.

Aims

To investigate whether forensic psychiatric treatment leads to less symptoms, and a decrease of reoffending; to investigate the correlation between degrees of psychopathology and quality of life.

Methods

Patients are recruited from the University Forensic Center (UFC), Antwerp, Belgium, which is a outpatient facility for treatment of sex offenders. In the future patients from other facilities will be included. Several instruments are used to measure the degree of psychopathology, risk of recidivism, and quality of life.

Results

Preliminary results are presented and discussed in this paper.

Type
S14-04
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 26 , Issue S2: Abstracts of the 19th European Congress of Psychiatry , March 2011 , pp. 2063
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2011
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