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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Aug 17.
Published in final edited form as: J Clin Psychiatry. 2008 Jan;69(1):12–22. doi: 10.4088/jcp.v69n0103

Table 3.

Prevalence and Population Estimates of Violent Behavior Since Age 15 Among Individuals with Specific Lifetime Pure and Comorbid Psychiatric Disorders

Disorder Pure Disorder
 Comorbid Disorder
Prevalence of Disorder in General Population (1) Population Estimate of Disorder in General Population (2) Prevalence of Violent Behavior (3) Population Estimate of Violent Behavior (2) × (3) Prevalence of Disorder in General Population (1) Population Estimate of Disorder in General Population (2) Prevalence of Violent Behavior (3) Population Estimate of Violent Behavior (2) × (3)
% N % N % N % N
Substance use disordera 21.09 43,841,180 5.95 2,606,812 17.30 35,965,835 15.90 5,718,200
 Alcohol abuse 7.74 16,083,422 2.98 479,067 10.06 20,915,804 11.39 2,382,204
 Alcohol dependence 2.48 5,163,150 7.22 372,679 10.00 20,790,459 18.95 3,940,210
 Drug abuse 0.67 1,398,895 8.24 115,261 7.07 14,690,459 16.93 2,487,677
 Drug dependence 0.04 83,531 11.32 9,453 2.55 5,295,791 31.92 1,690,434
 Nicotine dependence 3.27 6,806,938 2.55 173,903 14.44 30,023,365 16.15 4,850,249
Pathological gambling 0.01 21,669 0.00 0 0.41 848,460 28.78 244,152
Mood disorderb 3.93 8,164,893 2.17 176,810 14.41 29,946,635 14.36 4,299,095
 Major depressive disorder 2.86 5,937,517 1.88 111,775 10.37 21,556,665 10.07 2,171,804
 Dysthymia 0.22 458,437 1.58 7,250 2.99 6,207,142 10.64 660,392
 Bipolar I 0.30 614,860 2.52 15,501 3.01 6,260,730 27.58 1,726,807
 Bipolar II 0.14 285,539 5.12 14,630 0.98 2,037,949 14.76 300,891
Anxiety disorderc 3.71 7,712,943 1.10 84,521 13.44 27,933,464 12.14 3,391,690
 Panic disorder with agoraphobia 0.03 55,829 3.39 1,891 1.05 2,175,538 14.75 320,910
 Panic disorder without agoraphobia 0.63 1,312,241 1.88 24,622 3.37 6,999,746 15.29 1,070,538
 Social phobia 0.53 1,095,154 0.15 1,647 4.44 9,231,156 12.53 1,156,847
 Specific phobia 1.92 3,984,488 0.88 35,006 7.47 15,526,336 12.49 1,939,043
 Generalized anxiety 0.22 453,455 4.71 21,355 3.92 8,144,306 13.51 1,100,007
Personality disorderd 2.23 4,639,552 3.36 155,848 10.55 21,940,005 17.49 3,837,720
 Paranoid 0.27 562,991 2.36 13,312 4.14 8,613,220 24.62 2,120,920
 Schizoid 0.21 440,878 0.10 438 2.91 6,057,537 19.87 1,203,830
 Histrionic 0.06 122,930 3.89 4,776 1.78 3,706,157 25.36 939,877
 Avoidant 0.08 156,958 0.00 0 2.28 4,738,752 15.52 735,445
 Dependent 0.02 41,090 0.00 0 0.47 980,776 24.32 238,488
 Obsessive-compulsive 1.18 2,459,805 2.53 62,289 6.70 13,922,172 16.45 2,289,659
Any DSM-IV disorder 23.02 47,863,050 3.15 1,507,970 30.08 62,502,683 12.35 7,719,156

Note: Population estimates of violent behavior for pure and comorbid disorders are exact figures that may not correspond to the product of columns (2) and (3) due to rounding of prevalence of violent behavior reported in column (3). The sum of the population estimates for the individual pure disorders may not equal the population estimate for the corresponding pure disorder category because the mean weight factors used to derive the weighted population estimates vary across disorders.

a

The aggregated pure substance use disorder includes respondents with one or more substance use disorder, but with no other DSM-IV disorder.

b

The aggregated pure mood disorder includes respondents with one or more mood disorder, but with no other DSM-IV disorder.

c

The aggregated pure anxiety disorder includes respondents with one or more anxiety disorder, but with no other DSM-IV disorder.

d

The aggregated pure personality disorder includes respondents with one or more presonality disorder, but with no other DSM-IV disorder.