作者
Cesare Cavalera, Clarissa Ferrari, Giorgio Bianconi, Viola Bulgari, Valentina Candini, Giuseppe Carrà, Massimo Clerici, Giovanni Conte, Marta Cricelli, Maria Teresa Ferla, Laura Iozzino, Ambra Macis, Alberto Stefana, Alessandra Ornaghi, Giovanni de Girolamo, VIORMED-2 Group
发表日期
2020/12
期刊
Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
卷号
54
期号
12
页码范围
1212-1223
出版商
SAGE Publications
简介
Objective
The relationship between alcohol and substance use and the risk of violence exhibited by patients with mental disorders is under-researched. This prospective cohort study aims to compare patients with severe mental disorders and with different substance use behaviors in terms of sociodemographic and clinical characteristics, hostility, impulsivity and aggressive behaviors. Furthermore, this study aims to assess differences in violent behaviors during a 1-year monitoring follow-up.
Methods
A total of 378 participants with severe mental disorders from Italian residential facilities and from four Departments of Mental Health (244 outpatients and 134 residential patients) were enrolled. Participants were categorized as Persons with Current Substance Use, Persons with Former Substance Use and Persons with Non-Substance Use. All these patients underwent a complex multidimensional assessment, including …
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