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Comparing violence in schizophrenia patients with and without comorbid substance‐use disorders to community controls

Overview of attention for article published in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, February 2013
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Title
Comparing violence in schizophrenia patients with and without comorbid substance‐use disorders to community controls
Published in
Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, February 2013
DOI 10.1111/acps.12066
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Authors

T. Short, S. Thomas, P. Mullen, J. R. P. Ogloff

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: This study examined crime and violence in patients with schizophrenia with and without comorbid substance-use disorders. METHOD: A case-linkage design was used to compare patterns of violence and offending between 4168 schizophrenia patients drawn from a state-wide public mental health register, both with and without comorbid substance-use disorders, and a randomly selected community control group who had never been diagnosed with schizophrenia. RESULTS: Schizophrenia patients were significantly more likely than controls to be guilty of violent and non-violent offences, and to have been involved in family violence. Even schizophrenia patients without comorbid substance-use disorders had a significantly elevated risk of violence; this group were more than twice as likely as controls to have a violent conviction. The elevation of violence risk in schizophrenia patients was higher in females (OR = 8.59) than males (OR = 2.25). CONCLUSION: The increased risk of violent offending in schizophrenia cannot be solely attributed to the effects of comorbid substance misuse, although comorbidity certainly heightens the likelihood of criminality. In addition to offending, people with schizophrenia are more likely than community controls to come to the attention of police via their involvement in family violence incidents. Schizophrenia is a particularly strong risk factor for violence in females.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 131 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 33 25%
Researcher 18 14%
Student > Master 17 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 8%
Student > Postgraduate 9 7%
Other 22 17%
Unknown 24 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 46 35%
Medicine and Dentistry 24 18%
Social Sciences 10 8%
Neuroscience 7 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 4%
Other 9 7%
Unknown 32 24%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 34. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 November 2023.
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#1,165,567
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Outputs from Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
#159
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#10,107
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Outputs of similar age from Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
#2
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