Citation

Cheung P, Schweitzer I, Yastrubetskaya O, Crowley K, Tuckwell V. Med. Sci. Law 1997; 37(4): 345-348.

Affiliation

University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1997, British Academy of Forensic Sciences, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

9383945

Abstract

Of 73 patients who met selection criteria to enter into a study on aggressive behaviour in schizophrenia, 11 patients (15.1%) did not participate. The participants and non-participants were similar in age, gender ratio and proportion who had aggressive behaviour. The participants, however, had a longer duration of illness, a longer duration of current admission, were more likely to suffer from residual schizophrenia, but less likely to suffer from disorganized schizophrenia and were less severely ill than the non-participants. These results indicate the need, in studies of aggressive behaviour in schizophrenia, to consider non-response bias as a confounding variable.

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