Study |
Major findings |
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Fulwiler et al. (1997) |
In urban assertive community treatment patients, mental illness is not associated with violence unless accompanied by history of SA |
Steadman et al. (1998) |
Prevalence of violence for nonpatient controls without SA statistically equivalent to patients with major mental disorder without SA |
Swanson et al. (1999) |
No association found between violence and paranoia, level of psychosis, or diagnosis among seriously mentally ill patients under outpatient commitment orders |
Appelbaum et al. (2000) |
Replicates Link and Steuve (1994) if use patients' self-report of TCO symptoms and retrospective analysis, but no association between violence and delusions (when latter judged by interviewer and using prospective design) |
Steadman et al. (2000) |
TCO symptoms and schizophrenia diagnosis are both negatively correlated with violence |
Teasdale et al. (2006) |
Women experiencing TCO delusions less likely to be violent; men experiencing control-override delusions less likely to be violent |
Skeem et al. (2006) |
Among high-risk group of patients, psychiatric symptoms not associated with violence in the next week |