The association between neighbourhood characteristics and physical victimisation in men and women with mental disorders.

ABSTRACT:

Background

How neighbourhood characteristics affect the physical safety of people with mental illness is unclear.

Aims

To examine neighbourhood effects on physical victimisation towards people using mental health services.

Method

We developed and evaluated a machine-learning-derived free-text-based natural language processing (NLP) algorithm to ascertain clinical text referring to physical victimisation. This was applied to records on all patients attending National Health Service mental health services in Southeast London. Sociodemographic and clinical data, and diagnostic information on use of acute hospital care (from Hospital Episode Statistics, linked to Clinical Record Interactive Search), were collected in this group, defined as 'cases' and concurrently sampled

SUBMITTER: Bhavsar V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7443921 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature