ReviewSocial psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2008
Evidence for a relationship between the duration of untreated psychosis and the proportion of psychotic homicides prior to treatment.
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25 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis: Risk Factors of Violence During First-Episode Psychosis.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2026Pooled it
- Systematic Review and Meta-analysis: Rates of Violence During First-Episode Psychosis (FEP).Schizophrenia bulletin · 2024Pooled it
- Homicide of strangers by people with a psychotic illness.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2011Pooled it
- Rates of homicide during the first episode of psychosis and after treatment: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2010Pooled it
- Did the introduction of 'dangerousness' and 'risk of harm' criteria in mental health laws increase the incidence of suicide in the United States of America?Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2009Pooled it
- Forensic mental health service use in early psychosis: A scoping review.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2026Review
- Homicide in the context of psychosis: analysis of prior service utilisation and age at onset of illness and violence.BJPsych open · 2023Article
- Socio-demographic, clinical and offense-related characteristics of forensic psychiatric inpatients in Hunan, China: a cross-sectional survey.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
- The neurobiology of duration of untreated psychosis: a comprehensive review.Molecular psychiatry · 2023Review
- Mental health service contact following release from prison or hospital discharge in those with psychosis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Reducing the Duration of Untreated Psychosis (DUP) in a US Community: A Quasi-Experimental Trial.Schizophrenia bulletin open · 2022Article
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- Recent violence and legal involvement among young adults with early psychosis enrolled in Coordinated Specialty Care.Early intervention in psychiatry · 2019Article
- The utility of outpatient commitment: Reduced-risks of victimization and crime perpetration.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2019Article
- Informal Caregiving Relationships in Psychosis: Reviewing the Impact of Patient Violence on Caregivers.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- Perceptions of mental illness etiology and treatment in Saudi Arabian healthcare students: A cross-sectional study.SAGE open medicine · 2018Article
- [Interpersonal violence in the context of affective and psychotic disorders].Der Nervenarzt · 2016Review
- Infanticide by a mother with untreated schizophrenia.Shanghai archives of psychiatry · 2015Article
- The impact of first episode psychosis on sibling quality of life.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2014Article
- Violence in childhood-onset schizophrenia.Mental illness · 2013Article
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Abstract
backgroundRecent studies of homicide during psychotic illness have shown that the risk of homicide is greatest during the first episode of psychosis. It is also possible that the proportion of patients who commit homicide before they receive effective treatment may be associated with the length of time they were unwell. We aimed to establish whether there was an association between the average duration of untreated psychosis and the proportion of homicides committed during the first episode of psychosis in the same countries.
methodsSystematic searches of published studies of homicide in psychosis and the duration of untreated psychosis were conducted. The results were combined to examine the relationship between the reported delay in receiving treatment and the proportion of homicides committed before initial treatment.
resultsWe found 16 studies that reported the proportion of psychotic patients who committed homicide prior to treatment. The proportion of first episode patients ranged from 13% to 76%. We were able to match 13 of those studies with DUP studies from the same country. Longer average DUP was associated with a higher proportion of patients who committed homicide prior to receiving treatment.
conclusionsThe possibility that the proportion of patients who commit homicide before receiving treatment may be related to the average treatment delay in the region that the homicide occurs needs to be examined using a case controlled design. If this finding were confirmed, then any measure that reduced the delay in treating emerging psychosis would save lives.
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