Background: More than 20 epidemiological studies have reported the association between major mental disorder and violence. It has always been perceived that criminal offenders are crazy and mentally ill while on the other hand there is another view that psychiatric patients are dangerous and more likely to commit criminal offences.
Objective: This study was planned to determine the prevalence and risk factors of criminality among Psychiatric patients.
Methodology: This study was a record based cross sectional study. Data of all the patients who were discharged from the institute during January 2014 to December 2018 suffering from various mental disorders was analyzed from hospital record. The diagnosis of patients was taken from their case files which were made according to ICD-10 classification. Results and Conclusions: Criminality was found in approximately 15% of the psychiatric patients. Male gender (p value 0.009) and co-morbid substance abuse (p value 0.045) were found to be independent predicters of criminality after adjusting for other variables.
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2022: 6.012
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