Table 1.
Clinical characteristics of the sample (N = 246).
| V N=73 n (%) |
V-SH N=53 n (%) |
SH N=34 n (%) |
CONT N=86 n (%) |
p-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary diagnosis as established by treating clinicians | |||||
| Schizophrenia | 33 (45.2) | 19 (35.8) | 8 (23.5) | 43 (50.0) | 0.083 |
| Personality disorder | 24 (32.9) | 23 (43.4) | 14 (41.2) | 20 (23.3) | |
| Bipolar disorder | 10 (13.7) | 3 (5.7) | 5 (14.7) | 9 (10.5) | |
| Anxiety/Mood disorders | 6 (8.2) | 8 (15.1) | 7 (20.6) | 14 (16.3) | |
| Comorbidity with substance/alcohol abuse (Secondary diagnosis) | |||||
| Alcohol | 4 (5.5) | 5 (9.6) | 3 (8.8) | 1 (1.2) | 0.014 |
| Other substances | 5 (6.8) | 8 (15.4) | 9 (26.5) | 8 (9.3) | |
| None | 64 (87.7) | 39 (75.0) | 22 (64.7) | 77 (89.5) | |
| In pharmacological treatment | |||||
| Yes | 66 (90.4) | 49 (94.2) | 33 (97.1) | 81 (94.2) | 0.640 |
| No | 7 (9.6) | 3 (5.8) | 1 (2.9) | 5 (5.8) | |
| Lifetime Alcohol use | |||||
| Yes | 20 (27.4) | 19 (35.8) | 11 (33.3) | 16 (18.6) | 0.118 |
| No/Occasional | 53 (72.6) | 34 (64.2) | 32 (66.7) | 70 (81.4) | |
| Lifetime Substances use | |||||
| Yes | 23 (31.5) | 24 (47.1) | 10 (30.3) | 15 (17.4) | 0.003 |
| No | 50 (68.5) | 27 (52.9) | 23 (69.7) | 71 (82.6) | |
V: patients with a history of violent behaviour against other people (but not self-harm behaviour); V-SH: patients with both a history of violent behaviour against other people and self-harm behaviour; SH: patients with a history of self-harm behaviour; CONT: patients with no history of violent behaviour against other people and of self-harm behaviour.
p value was obtained through χ2 test or Fisher’s exact test (when n < 5 at least in one cell).