Profiling of victimization, perpetration, and participation: A latent class analysis among people with severe mental illness.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Persons with severe mental illness are more prone to victimization and experience more difficulties regarding societal participation than other community members. These experiences vary greatly among individuals. Community mental health care should offer more individualized support by addressing these differences in experience. Therefore, this study aimed to identify subgroups of outpatients with severe mental illness based on their experiences of social participation and victimization.

Methods

Data from patients with severe mental illness from eight outpatient teams in the Netherlands were used to perform latent class analysis. From the total caseload, 395 patients agreed to participate. Classes were based on: i) criminal victimization incidents, ii) criminal per

SUBMITTER: Albers WMM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6268008 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature