Mental disorders and vulnerability to homicidal death: Swedish nationwide cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine the risk of people with mental disorders being victims of homicide.

Design

National cohort study.

Setting

Sweden.

Participants

Entire adult population (n = 7,253,516).

Main outcome measures

Homicidal death during eight years of follow-up (2001-08); hazard ratios for the association between mental disorders and homicidal death, with adjustment for sociodemographic confounders; potential modifying effect of comorbid substance use.

Results

615 homicidal deaths occurred in 54.4 million person years of follow-up. Mortality rates due to homicide (per 100,000 person years) were 2.8 among people with mental disorders compared with 1.1 in the general population. After adjustment for sociodemographic confounders, any mental disorder w

SUBMITTER: Crump C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6364268 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature