Psychiatric and Physical Health Outcomes Associated with Interpersonal Violence:A Propensity Score Matching Approach
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Siobhan Murphy; Marie Kruse; Ask Elklit; Ole Brink
- Source
- Murphy, S, Kruse, M, Elklit, A & Brink, O 2021, ' Psychiatric and Physical Health Outcomes Associated with Interpersonal Violence : A Propensity Score Matching Approach ', Psychiatric Quarterly, vol. 92, no. 4, pp. 1635-1644 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s11126-021-09910-1
- Subject
- medicine.medical_specialty
Psychiatric outcomes
Physical health
Violence
Interpersonal violence
Danish
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Propensity score matching
Outcome Assessment, Health Care
medicine
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Medical diagnosis
Propensity Score
Psychiatry
Crime Victims
business.industry
Public health
language.human_language
030227 psychiatry
Psychiatry and Mental health
Case-Control Studies
Scale (social sciences)
language
Observational study
business
- Language
- English
This study examined the association between interpersonal violence and a range of psychiatric and physical health outcomes and assessed whether these associations changed when controlling for a stress-related diagnosis. An observational case–control study was conducted on a sample of 4,059 victims of violence. Using propensity score matching a number of risk factors (assessed five years prior assault) were used. Controls were matched 10:1 using the Danish Central Registry System. Outcomes were ICD-10 diagnoses of a range of psychiatric and physical health outcomes in the 15 years post-injury. Statistically significant associations were found for all psychiatric conditions and a diagnosis of a drug or substance misuse disorder. These findings remained even after controlling for a diagnosis of a stress-related disorder. Large scale case–control studies using the Danish nationwide registers enables a powerful way of assessing the relative impact of exposure to interpersonal violence on the development of psychiatric and physical health problems.