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Table 4 Relationship between risk index score and restraint episodes

From: Characteristics of adolescents frequently restrained in acute psychiatric units in Norway: a nationwide study

Risk index score

N (%)

Number of restraint episodes

0–1

2–4

5–9

≥10

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

0–1

28 (100)

15 (54)

10 (36)

3 (11)

0 (0)

2

38 (100)

16 (42)

11 (29)

5 (13)

6 (16)

3

63 (100)

23 (37)

22 (35)

8 (13)

10 (16)

4–7

68 (100)

14 (21)

22 (32)

8 (12)

24 (35)

  1. Goodman and Kruskal’s gamma is .35
  2. Data from N = 197 adolescents with valid Information for all four of the variables used for the risk index score