Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health

Table 3 SOAS-R- and VAS-Severity-Score

From: Frequency and severity of aggressive incidents in acute psychiatric wards in Switzerland

	SOAS-R-Score			VAS			Correlation
	n	Range; Med	Mean ± SD	n	Range; Med	Mean ± SD	r*
All incidents	760	0 – 21; 9	8.8 ± 4.9	669	0 – 100; 28	34.4 ± 26.3	0.321
Physical aggression	403	0 – 21; 10	10.0 ± 5.1	347	0 – 100; 30	36.4 ± 26.7	0.269
Verbal aggression	357	0 – 17; 8	7.5 ± 4.3	322	0 – 100; 27	32.2 ± 25.6	0.352
Physical attacks	252	3 – 21; 11	11.1 ± 5.1	212	0 – 100; 29	36.8 ± 27.9	0.280

* Spearman Rho, all correlations p < 0.001

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