Development of the Repeat Clinical Hospitalization Risk Assessment Scale in Chronic Psychiatric Diseases

This study was conducted to provide a comprehensive scale that evaluates the risk of repeated inpatient hospitalizations in chronic psychiatric diseases in order to predict and prevent repeated hospitalizations.

The study population consisted of individuals with chronic psychiatric diseases (n = 390) receiving inpatient treatment at the adult psychiatry inpatient services of Turkey Ankara Bilkent City Hospital. The sample number calculation was made based on 10 times the number of scale items. For the pilot component of the research, data was collected between February, 2023 and January, 2024. An 'Informed Voluntary Consent Form', a 'Sociodemographic Data Collection Form', the 'Discharge Readiness Scale', and the 'Repeated Clinical Hospitalization Risk Assessment Draft Scale for Chronic Psychiatric Diseases' were used as data collection tools. During the development stages, the validity and reliability of the scale were analyzed.

The Content Validity Index (CVI) value of the scale items was calculated as 0.98. Cronbach's alpha of the scale was found to be 0.833.

The 'Repeated Clinical Hospitalization Risk Assessment Scale in Chronic Psychiatric Diseases' is a valid and reliable scale for the Turkish population in terms of measuring risk level.