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SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY AND PSYCHIATRIC EPIDEMIOLOGY
Volume 46, Issue 1, Pages 29-34Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-009-0167-5
Keywords
Victimisation; Violent victimisation; Violence; Mental disorder
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- National Board of Health and Welfare, Sweden
- Centre for Gender Medicine at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
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To report the rate of violent victimisation of psychiatric patients 1 year before interview and to examine the relative rate in comparison to the general population. Cases were recruited from two public psychiatric hospitals in Stockholm County (n = 390). The controls comprised gender- and age-matched people interviewed in an annual national survey of living conditions (n = 1,170). Twenty percent of the patients had been victimised during the preceding year. The relative rate was six times higher than that of the controls. Women appeared to be most vulnerable with a tenfold risk increase. The findings stress that psychiatric patients are vulnerable to other people's violent behaviour.
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