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Bipolar Illness: Correlates of Dangerous Inpatient Behaviour

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Jerome A. Yesavage
Jerome A. Yesavage*
Affiliation:
Schizophrenia Biologic Research Center, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Palo Alto, California 94304 and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94304, U.S.A.
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Summary

Forty male patients with bipolar affective illness were examined for factors correlating with dangerous inpatient behaviour. It was found that 63 per cent of the variance for inpatient assaults could be accounted for by a combination of a history of severe childhood discipline, a manic state, the degree of psychosis and a record of violence prior to admission. Such information may be of use in the clinical prediction of violent acts by bipolar patients, as well as suggesting ways of preventing them.

Type
Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 143 , Issue 6 , December 1983 , pp. 554 - 557
Copyright
Copyright © 1983 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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