Mental Illness Concordance Between Hospital Clinical Records and Mentions in Domestic Violence Police Narratives: Data Linkage Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To better understand domestic violence, data sources from multiple sectors such as police, justice, health, and welfare are needed. Linking police data to data collections from other agencies could provide unique insights and promote an all-of-government response to domestic violence. The New South Wales Police Force attends domestic violence events and records information in the form of both structured data and a free-text narrative, with the latter shown to be a rich source of information on the mental health status of persons of interest (POIs) and victims, abuse types, and sustained injuries.

Objective

This study aims to examine the concordance (ie, matching) between mental illness mentions extracted from the police's event narratives and mental health diagnos

SUBMITTER: Karystianis G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9634517 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature