Citation

Edwards JG, Jones D, Reid WH, Chu CC. Am. J. Psychiatry 1988; 145(12): 1568-1571.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, Royal South Hants Hospital, Southampton, U.K.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1988, American Psychiatric Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

3195677

Abstract

The authors collected data concerning assaults, assaultive patients, and victims in a psychiatric unit during a 12-month period and compared them with data from a control group of patients. Thirty-seven assaults by 25 patients were recorded. Fourteen of the victims were patients and 23 were members of staff. The assaultive group contained a significantly higher proportion of schizophrenic patients than did the control group and significantly larger numbers of patients from lower socioeconomic classes, patients admitted involuntarily under a section of the Mental Health Act, and patients with a history of assaults.

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