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Dangerous behaviour preceding first admissions for schizophrenia

M S Humphreys et al. Br J Psychiatry. 1992 Oct.

Abstract

Of 253 patients in their first schizophrenic episode, 52 behaved in a way threatening to the lives of others before their admission to hospital. These 52 patients were studied from data collected at the time of their initial presentation. Despite a history of illness in excess of 1 year in 24 cases, and evidence that violence was motivated by psychotic symptoms in 23 cases, fewer than half of the patients were admitted to hospital as a direct result of their dangerous behaviour. Life-threatening behaviour was more common where the patient had been ill for longer, and where there were delusions of being poisoned.

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• Dangerous behaviour preceding first admissions for schizophrenia.

  Humphreys M, Johnstone EC. Humphreys M, et al. Br J Psychiatry. 1993 Oct;163:547. doi: 10.1192/bjp.163.4.547a. Br J Psychiatry. 1993. PMID: 8252295 No abstract available.

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