Serious physical assault and subsequent risk for rehospitalization in individuals with severe mental illness: a nationwide, register-based retrospective cohort study

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00669806:_____/21:10432188 RIV/00216208:11110/21:10432188 RIV/00216208:11140/21:10432188 RIV/61989592:15110/21:73611208

Result on the web

<a href="https://annals-general-psychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12991-021-00358-y" target="_blank" >https://annals-general-psychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12991-021-00358-y</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12991-021-00358-y" target="_blank" >10.1186/s12991-021-00358-y</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Serious physical assault and subsequent risk for rehospitalization in individuals with severe mental illness: a nationwide, register-based retrospective cohort study

Original language description

Background: Victimization is associated with worse social and clinical outcomes of individuals with severe mental illness (SMI). A relapse of SMI may be one of the clinical consequences of assaultive trauma. As far as we know, there is no published study that analyzes nationwide health registers to assess the risk of SMI rehospitalization following assault. Aim: We aimed to assess whether exposure to assault is associated with an increased risk of psychiatric hospitalization in those with SMI. Methods: We utilized data from the Czech nationwide registers of all-cause hospitalizations and all-cause deaths. We defined exposed individuals as those discharged from a hospitalization for SMI between 2002 and 2007, and hospitalized for serious injuries sustained in an assault in the subsequent 7 years. For each assaulted individual, we randomly selected five counterparts, matched on SMI diagnosis, age and sex, who were not assaulted in the examined time period. We used mixed effect logistic regression to assess the effect of assault on the risk of SMI rehospitalization within the following 6 months. We fitted unadjusted models and models adjusted for the number of previous SMI hospitalizations and drug use disorders. Results: The sample consisted of 248 exposed and 1 240 unexposed individuals. In the unadjusted model, assaulted individuals were almost four times more likely to be rehospitalized than their non-assaulted counterparts (odds ratio (OR) = 3.96; 95% CI 2.75; 5.71). After adjusting for all covariates, the OR remained threefold higher (OR = 3.07; 95% CI 2.10; 4.49). Conclusion: People with a history of SMI hospitalization were approximately three times more likely to be rehospitalized for SMI within 6 months after an assault than their non-assaulted SMI counterparts. Soon after a person with SMI is physically assaulted, there should be a psychiatric evaluation and a close follow-up.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30215 - Psychiatry

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Annals of General Psychiatry

ISSN

1744-859X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

20

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

"Article number 44"

UT code for WoS article

000697067900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85115185897