A UK population-based study of the relationship between mental disorder and victimisation

Purpose To establish the prevalence of victimisation in a UK population-based sample and to investigate the association between mental disorder and victimisation in both cross-sectional and prospective manner, whilst adjusting for potential confounds. Methods Data from the National Child Development...

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Published in:Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 2012-10, Vol.47 (10), p.1581-1590
Main Authors: Hart, Christina, de Vet, Renée, Moran, Paul, Hatch, Stephani L., Dean, Kimberlie
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Age
Alcohol-Related Disorders - complications
Alcohol-Related Disorders - epidemiology
Analysis
Biological and medical sciences
Child development
Confounding (Statistics)
Crime Victims - psychology
Crime Victims - statistics & numerical data
Cross-Sectional Studies
Domestic violence
Education
Epidemiology
Female
Gender
Health services
Historical account
Housing
Humans
Income
Interviews as Topic
Male
Medical research
Medical sciences
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Medicine, Experimental
Mental disorders
Mental Disorders - epidemiology
Mental Disorders - psychology
Mental health care
Mental illness
Mentally ill
Middle Aged
Multivariate Analysis
Original Paper
Population Surveillance
Population-based studies
Prevalence
Prospective Studies
Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Risk Factors
Sex Distribution
Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry
Socioeconomic Factors
Socioeconomics
United Kingdom - epidemiology
Victimization
Violence - psychology
Violence - statistics & numerical data
Vulnerable Populations
Young Adult
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Summary:Purpose To establish the prevalence of victimisation in a UK population-based sample and to investigate the association between mental disorder and victimisation in both cross-sectional and prospective manner, whilst adjusting for potential confounds. Methods Data from the National Child Development Study (NCDS) were used to examine criminal victimisation, violent victimisation, and mental disorder at age 46 yerars, and also to measure history of mental disorder, when cohort members were aged 23, 33 and 42 years. Variables considered to be potential confounders or mediators of the association, including socio-economic status, family income, financial strain, education, housing ownership status, heavy drinking and gender, all measured at age 46 years, were considered in multivariate analyses. Results The prevalence of criminal victimisation amongst cohort members in the 12 months preceding interview was 15%; 2.2% of the participants reported experiencing violent victimisation in the past year. Mental disorder at age 46 was significantly associated with criminal and violent victimisation, even after adjusting for potential confounds. A prior history of mental disorder was found to be a robust predictor of criminal and violent victimisation. Conclusions This study provides evidence that those with a mental disorder are at elevated risk of victimisation, including violent victimisation. That such an association might reflect an underlying causal relationship is further supported by the confirmation that the association holds true when mental disorder is measured well before the assessment of victimisation risk, and that it persists despite adjustment for a number of potential confounding factors.
ISSN:0933-7954
1433-9285
DOI:10.1007/s00127-011-0464-7