A Scoping Review on Biological Factors Associated with Interpersonal Violence in Adults with Severe Mental Illness

Abstract

Despite the prevalence of victimisation being higher than violence in people with severe mental illness, society has a negative, dangerous perception of people with mental illness and violence. Moreover, a study found that 5.3% of the estimated total social cost of violence was related to people with severe mental illness in England and Wales in 2015-16 [6-8].There are different factors related to psychiatric in-patient aggression, such as being younger, male, being involved