Dangerous behaviour preceding first admissions for schizophrenia

Humphreys, M. S., Johnstone, E. C., MacMillan, J. F. and Taylor, Pamela Jane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3998-6095 1992. Dangerous behaviour preceding first admissions for schizophrenia. The British Journal of Psychiatry 161 (4) , pp. 501-505. 10.1192/bjp.161.4.501

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Abstract

Of 253 patients in their first schizophrenic episode, 52 behaved in a way threatening to the lives of others before their admission to hospital. These 52 patients were studied from data collected at the time of their initial presentation. Despite a history of illness in excess of 1 year in 24 cases, and evidence that violence was motivated by psychotic symptoms in 23 cases, fewer than half of the patients were admitted to hospital as a direct result of their dangerous behaviour. Life-threatening behaviour was more common where the patient had been ill for longer, and where there were delusions of being poisoned.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (CNGG)
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
ISSN:	0007-1250
Last Modified:	31 Oct 2022 10:34
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/85345

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