@article{ref1,
title="Prevalence of mental illnesses in domestic violence police records: text mining  study",
journal="Journal of medical internet research",
year="2020",
author="Karystianis, George and Simpson, Annabeth and Adily, Armita and Schofield, Peter and Greenberg, David and Wand, Handan and Nenadic, Goran and Butler, Tony",
volume="22",
number="12",
pages="e23725-e23725",
abstract="BACKGROUND: The New South Wales Police Force (NSWPF) records details of significant  numbers of domestic violence (DV) events they attend each year as both structured  quantitative data and unstructured free text. Accessing information contained in the  free text such as the victim's and persons of interest (POI's) mental health status  could be useful in the better management of DV events attended by the police and  thus improve health, justice, and social outcomes. <br><br>OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study  is to present the prevalence of extracted mental illness mentions for POIs and  victims in police-recorded DV events. <br><br>METHODS: We applied a knowledge-driven text  mining method to recognize mental illness mentions for victims and POIs from  police-recorded DV events. <br><br>RESULTS: In 416,441 police-recorded DV events with single  POIs and single victims, we identified 64,587 events (15.51%) with at least one  mental illness mention versus 4295 (1.03%) recorded in the structured fixed fields. Two-thirds (67,582/85,880, 78.69%) of mental illnesses were associated with POIs  versus 21.30% (18,298/85,880) with victims; depression was the most common condition  in both victims (2822/12,589, 22.42%) and POIs (7496/39,269, 19.01%). Mental  illnesses were most common among POIs aged 0-14 years (623/1612, 38.65%) and in  victims aged over 65 years (1227/22,873, 5.36%). <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: A wealth of mental  illness information exists within police-recorded DV events that can be extracted  using text mining. The results showed mood-related illnesses were the most common in  both victims and POIs. Further investigation is required to determine the  reliability of the mental illness mentions against sources of diagnostic  information.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1438-8871",
doi="10.2196/23725",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/23725"
}