title: Predictors of Treatment Noncompletion in a Sample of Inpatient Sex Offenders With Serious Mental Illness.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Very little is known regarding noncompletion of sex offender treatment among sex offenders with serious psychiatric illness. The purpose of the study was to identify factors predictive of treatment noncompletion in a forensic psychiatric sample of 156 adult male sex offenders.
  
  
  METHODS
  All data were coded from archival client medical records. Variables of interest, including indicators of historical risk and clinical diagnoses made by hospital psychiatrists, were entered into both a linear regression equation with percentage of groups attended over two years as a continuous variable and a logistic regression equation for predicting more or less than 50% sex offender treatment group attendance.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Significant predictors of treatment noncompletion included number of arrests, recent physical aggression, length of admission, and diagnoses of borderline personality disorder, psychosis, and intellectual impairments.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The resulting predictors indicate a combination of relevant variables for psychiatric sex offenders, combining both criminal risk and clinical risk indicators. Suggested reasons for these findings and implications for predicting treatment noncompletion by psychiatric sex offenders are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Dr. Stinson is with the Department of Psychology, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City (e-mail: dr.jill.stinson@hotmail.com ).
authors.forename: Jill Diane
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Stinson
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D000368:Aged; D001007:Anxiety; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients; D016014:Linear Models; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010349:Patient Compliance / Q000523:psychology*; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D011613:Psychotherapy; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group; D012307:Risk Factors; D012742:Sex Offenses / Q000523:psychology*; D014481:United States; D055815:Young Adult