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In a large and diverse sample of adults with SMI, we Charm bracelet that about 13% by their own report had committed assaultive acts during the previous year In relative terms, this prevalence rate is substantially higher than estimates of the violence rate for the general population, while it still supports the conclusion of other epidemiological studies that the large majority of persons with SMI do not commit violent acts.5

This study examined an extensive range of epidemiological risk factors and found Heart chain bracelet violence was independently associated with history of violent victimization, homelessness, cohabitation, exposure to community violence, substance abuse, poor self-rated mental health status, and history of psychiatric hospital admission. No single variable stood out as "the primary explanation" for violence in this large sample.The effects of victimization on violence were found to be highly significant if subjects had experienced repeated physical abuse throughout their lives. Persons who had been victimized only during early life, but not after age 16, were no more likely to commit violent acts than were persons who had never been victimized. However, the risk of violence was Return to Tiffany mini heart tags bracelet times higher in those who were victimized both before and after age 16, compared with those victimized during only 1 period. Thus, repeated abuse has a cumulative association with violence.

Like experience of victimization, substance abuse and exposure to community violence Tiffany 1837 Lock bracelet each found to be strongly associated with violent behavior. Alcohol and illicit drug use can lead to violence by disinhibiting aggressive behavioral impulses, creating conflict in social relationships, and exposing the substance user to violent environments. Moreover, people who routinely witness or experience violent events in their surrounding communities over a long period of time may begin to act violently themselves, as a learned behavior or reaction to perceived threat from others.These risk factors do not operate in isolation. The analysis depicted in Figure 1 indicates that subjects with none, or only 1, of these factors had predicted probabilities of violence of 2% or below-which is close to the National Institute of Mental Health Epidemiologic Catchment Area Study estimates of the 1 -year prevalence of violence in the general population without mental illness.1 However, adding a Tiffany 1837 Charm bracelet risk factor doubled (at least) the probability of violence, and respondents with all 3 risk factors combined were by far the most likely to commit violent acts-with a predicted probability of 30%. These analyses support the view that violence by persons with SMI is the result of multiple variables with compounded direct and indirect effects over the life span.