Characteristics of Psychiatric Patients Who Engage in Assaultive or Other Fear-Inducing Behaviors

Self-rated aggression and cerebral monoaminergic turnover

“…Our present findings confirm previously reported sex differences in self-rated aggression Rossi et al 1986). Furthermore, they indicate that the pathological process in a psychiatric disorder such as PDD may induce specific forms of aggression, such as hostility.…”

The relationship of health-related quality of life to workplace physical violence against nurses by psychiatric patients

“…This relationship still needs to be clarified. The demographic data were not reliable predictors of WPV, however, and this finding has been noted in other papers [32,33]. We found that encouragement to report WPV seemed to reduce violent events, especially in the psychological and social domains, with this finding corroborated by a previous report [34].…”

“…Secondly, this study only focused on nurses. We did not explore other risk factors, such as environment [24], aggressors' profiles [33] and the interaction between nurses and perpetrators [22,23,27,35]. Thirdly, this study only explored WPV, but not other kinds of violence such as verbal abuse and sexual harassment, etc.…”

Major Mental Disorders and Criminal Violence in a Danish Birth Cohort

“…Several studies of inpatients have noted that depressed individuals are significantly less likely to be violent than individuals with other types of disorders. [8][9][10]23 Moreover, affective disorders were not found to be related to an increased risk for homicide in a Finnish cohort study. 15 By contrast, other studies have found a relationship between affective disorders and homicide, 24 self-reported violent behavior, 2 and conduct disorder in childhood and adolescence.…”