- ADHD
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
- AGREE
Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation Instrument
- AMED
Allied and Complementary Medicine Database
- APA
American Psychiatric Association
- ASPD
antisocial personality disorder
- AUC
area under the curve
- C2-SPECTR
Campbell Collaboration’s Social, Psychological, Educational, and Criminological Trials Register
- CA
cost analysis
- CAMHS
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
- CBA
cost-benefit analysis
- CCA
cost-consequences analysis
- CBT
cognitive behavioural therapy
- CEA
cost-effectiveness analysis
- CENTRAL
Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials
- CI
confidence interval
- CINAHL
Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature
- CMA
cost-minimisation analysis
- CSIP
Care Services Improvement Partnership
- CUA
cost-utility analysis
- DSM
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (editions I, II, II, III-R, IV)
- DSPD
dangerous and severe personality disorder
- EMBASE
Excerpta Medica database
- EEG
electroencephalography
- ESMHCG
Eastern Specialised Mental Health Commissioning Group
- FEDRIP
Federal Research in Progress
- FN
false negative
- FP
false positive
- GDG
Guideline Development Group
- GP
general practitioner
- GRADE
Grade of Recommendations: Assessment, Development and Evaluation
- GRP
guideline review panel
- HCR-20
Historical, Clinical, Risk Management-20
- HMIC
Healthcare Management Information Consortium
- HMP
Her Majesty’s Prison
- HMSO
Her Majesty’s Stationery Office
- HTA
Health Technology Assessment
- HRQoL
health-related quality of life
- IBSS
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
- ICD (-10)
International Classification of Diseases, 10th revision
- ITT
intention to treat
- LSI
Level of Service Inventory
- M
mean
- MEDLINE
A source of life sciences and biomedical bibliographic information compiled by the US National Library of Medicine (NLM) and published on the web by Community of Science
- n
number of participants in a group
- N
Total number of participants
- NCCMH
National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health
- NCJRS
National Criminal Justice Reference Service
- NFP
Nurse-Family Partnership
- NHS
National Health Service
- NHS EED
National Health Service Economic Evaluation Database
- NICE
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
- NICHD
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
- NNT
number needed to treat (H: harm; B: benefit)
- NPV
negative predictive validity
- NSF
National Service Framework
- OGRS
Offender Group Reconviction Scale
- OHE HEED
Office of Health Economics, Health Economics Evaluation Database
- OR
odds ratio
- p
probability
- PCIT
parent-child interaction therapy
- PCL-R
Psychopathy Checklist - Revised
- PCL-SV
Psychopathy Checklist - Screening Version
- PICO
patient, intervention, comparison and outcome
- PILOTS
Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress
- PPV
positive predictive validity
- PSS
personal social services
- PsycINFO
An abstract (not full text) database of psychological literature from the 1800s to the present
- PTSD
post-traumatic stress disorder
- QALY
quality-adjusted life year
- RAMAS
Risk Assessment Management and Audit systems
- RCT
randomised controlled trial
- RMO
responsible medical officer
- ROC
receiver operator characteristic
- RR
relative risk
- SIGLE
System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe
- SIGN
Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network
- SD
standard deviation
- SMD
standard mean differences
- SMR
standardised mortality rate
- SSRI
selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor
- STAXI
Spielberger State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory
- TAU
treatment as usual
- TN
true negative
- TP
true positive
- VRAG
Violence Risk Appraisal Guide
- WHO
World Health Organization
- WMD
weighted mean difference
