Short-term effects of psychiatric symptoms and interpersonal stressors on criminal violence--a case-crossover study
| Autor: | Johan Hallqvist, Ulrika Haggård-Grann, Niklas Långström, Jette Möller |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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Adult
Male Paranoid Disorders medicine.medical_specialty Health (social science) Social Psychology Adolescent Hallucinations Epidemiology Poison control Suicide Attempted Violence Suicide prevention Personality Disorders Occupational safety and health Delusions Conflict Psychological Risk Factors Injury prevention medicine Humans Interpersonal Relations Risk factor Psychiatry Suicidal ideation Aged Sweden Mental Disorders Prisoners Refusal to Treat Middle Aged Mental health Causality Psychiatry and Mental health Case-Control Studies Female Crime medicine.symptom Parasuicide Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology. 41(7) |
| ISSN: | 0933-7954 |
| Popis: | BACKGROUND:The aim of the study was to analyse the triggering or acute risk effect of psychiatric symptoms and interpersonal stressors on criminal violence.METHOD:One hundred and thirty three violent offenders were recruited from a forensic psychiatric evaluation (FPE) unit and a national prison evaluation unit in Sweden during 2002-2003, and were interviewed about trigger exposures. A case-crossover design was used eliminating long-term within individual confounding.RESULTS:Suicidal ideation or parasuicide within 24 h before the violent event conferred a ninefold risk increase. In contrast, violent ideation did not trigger criminal violence. Hallucinations yielded a fourfold risk increase, whereas paranoid thoughts were associated with a small and statistically non-significant risk increase. Acute conflicts with others and being denied psychiatric care within 24 h before violence also increased the risk of acting violently.CONCLUSIONS:Some tested psychiatric symptoms and stressors triggered criminal violence, whereas others did not. The case-crossover design may be particularly useful for the study of triggers of violence. |
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