ArticleBMC psychiatry2022
Violent victimization and revictimization in patients with depressive disorders: context characteristics, disclosure rates, and gender differences.
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- Revictimisation Across Types of Interpersonal Violence: A Meta-Regression Analysis of PTSD and Associated Factors.Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress · 2025Pooled it
- Risk and protective factors for interpersonal revictimization in people with post-traumatic stress symptoms: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
- Risk factors for revictimization during treatment in patients with co-occurring SUD and PTSD.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2026Trial
- A qualitative study on clients' needs and wishes for an intervention aimed at preventing revictimization.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2026Article
- Assessing interpersonal violence involvement in psychiatric patients: exploratory findings on the Interpersonal Violence Questionnaire (IVIQ).BMC psychiatry · 2026Article
- Revictimization and Mental Health Service Use in Intimate Partner Violence: A Comparison of Single and Multiple Reports Using Linked Police and Health Registers.The International journal of social psychiatry · 2026Article
- Prevalence and correlates of criminal victimization in Taiwanese outpatients with severe mental illness: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Prevalence and Associated Factors of Bullying Experienced by Community Patients With Serious Mental Disorders: Cross-Sectional Study.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2025Article
- Beyond the Initial Assault: Characterizing Revictimization in Intimate Partner Violence and Its Implications for Women's Health.Psychosocial intervention · 2024Article
- Global burden of self-harm and interpersonal violence and influencing factors study 1990-2019: analysis of the global burden of disease study.BMC public health · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundDepressed patients are prone to violent victimization, and patients who were victimized once are at increased risk to fall victim to violence again. However, knowledge on the context of victimization in depressed patients is lacking, and research identifying targets for prevention is urgently needed.
methodsThis cross-sectional study explored context characteristics, disclosure rates and gender differences regarding violent victimization in 153 recently victimized depressed patients. Additionally, 12-month prevalence rates of repeat threat, physical assault, and sexual assault were examined, and gender differences were investigated using t-tests, Chi-square tests, and Fisher's exact tests. Furthermore, logistic regression analyses were used to identify factors associated with repeat victimization.
resultsOverall, depressed men were most often victimized by a stranger in public, and women by their partner or ex-partner at home. Regarding sexual assault, no gender differences could be examined. Patients were sexually assaulted most often by an acquaintance (50.0%) or stranger (27.8%). In all patients, the most recent incidents of threat (67.6%) and physical assault (80.0%) were often preceded by a conflict, and only a minority had been intoxicated prior to the assault. Notably, less than half of patients had disclosed their recent experience of threat (40.6%) and physical assault (47.1%) to their mental health caregiver. For sexual assault, this was only 20%. Less than one third of patients had reported their recent experience of threat (27.9%), physical assault (30.0%) and sexual assault (11.1%) to the police. 48.4% of patients had been victimized repeatedly in the past year, with no gender differences found. Only depressive symptoms and unemployment were univariately associated with repeat victimization, but not in the multiple model.
conclusionsThe high prevalence of repeat victimization in depressed patients and their low disclosure rates stress the need to implement routine enquiry of victimization in mental health care, and to develop preventive interventions accounting for specific needs of men and women.
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