Citation

Coid JW. JAMA Psychiatry 2020; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Affiliation

Mental Health Center, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2020, American Medical Association)

DOI

10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2020.0830

PMID

32374353

Abstract

To the Editor The Original Investigation by Sariaslan and colleagues is important in questioning previous misperceptions of violence by individuals with serious mental illness and that it is primarily due to comorbid substance misuse. However, case registers do not have perfect coverage of all mental disorders in a population, and complex cases with co-occurring disorders may be disproportionately registered—those most likely to experience violence and be perpetrators. There is then the problem of temporal proximity.

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