title: Treatment no-show in forensic outpatients with ADHD.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  'No-show' is important in today's mental healthcare services, yet in forensic psychiatry, little is known about its relationship to general and disorder-specific patient characteristics.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The aim of this article is to determine the prevalence of no-show and any general and disorder-specific features associated with no-show in a cohort of offenders with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder registered at a specialist forensic mental health clinic.
  
  
  METHODS
  Participants were 118 adult men with a mean age just over 32 years (SD 8.75) attending forensic mental health outpatient clinics in the Netherlands who had a primary diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and who had been aggressive and/or delinquent.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Over a 1-year period, most patients (101, 86%) missed at least one appointment. The average number of appointments offered was 37.88 (SD = 27.27), and the average number of no-shows was 6.53 (SD = 5.99) per patient. Multivariate linear regressions showed a 10-fold likelihood of later no-shows if the first appointment was missed; not showing up after the intake procedure was also associated with higher rates of later no-show. None of the disorder-specific characteristics contributed to the problem.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  No-show is of particular concern in forensic mental health settings. In the current study, no-show was primarily associated with features related to the time of initial consultation. More attention should thus be paid at this stage to using a standard method of assessing a wider range of variables likely to affect attendance. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
authors.affiliation: Forensic outpatient clinic het Dok Rotterdam (Fivoor) and Kijvelanden Academy of Research Innovation and Development (KARID), The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Kasja
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Woicik
authors.affiliation: Forensic outpatient clinic het Dok Rotterdam (Fivoor) and Kijvelanden Academy of Research Innovation and Development (KARID), The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Rosalind
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: van der Lem
authors.affiliation: Forensic outpatient clinic het Dok Rotterdam (Fivoor) and Kijvelanden Academy of Research Innovation and Development (KARID), The Netherlands.|Department of Developmental Psychology, Tilburg University, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Jelle J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Sijtsema
authors.affiliation: Forensic outpatient clinic het Dok Rotterdam (Fivoor) and Kijvelanden Academy of Research Innovation and Development (KARID), The Netherlands.|Department of Developmental Psychology, Tilburg University, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bogaerts
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001071:Appointments and Schedules; D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D057237:Criminals / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008603:Mental Health; D008605:Mental Health Services; D009426:Netherlands; D010044:Outpatient Clinics, Hospital / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010045:Outpatients; D010349:Patient Compliance / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D015995:Prevalence; D012017:Referral and Consultation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*