Defining outcome measures of hospitalization for assessment in the Japanese forensic mental health scheme: a Delphi study

Table 1 Mean and standard deviation of the items in each round

	1^stround	2^ndround	3^rdround	4^thround	5^thround
Number of items	233	413	413	413	413
The average score of each item [mean ± standard deviation (SD)]	3.87 ± 0.54	3.62 ± 0.69	3.54 ± 0.80	3.39 ± 0.86	3.32 ± 0.89
The SD of each item (mean ± SD)	1.18 ± 0.25	1.06 ± 0.25	0.87 ± 0.21	0.87 ± 0.22	0.77 ± 0.17

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