Which Clinical and Demographic Factors are Related to Incarceration in Male Patients With Antisocial Personality Disorder
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Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD) is a condition largely represented in detention centers where can reach a prevalence of 60% in male prisoners. The objective of this study is to identify the clinical and demographic factors that differentiate subjects with APD and hosted in penitentiary with respect to those are treated in outpatient psychiatric clinics. We recruited 65 male patients affected by APD, whose 26 were followed up in community mental health services and 39 were serving their sentence in a detention center located in Monza. Socio-demographic and clinical data were obtained through a review of the clinical charts, and interviews with patients or their relatives (if available). We performed descriptive analyses on the total sample, then we compared the two groups identified by the type of setting (outpatient clinic vs. penitentiary) by independent sample t tests (quantitative variables) or χ 2 tests (qualitative ones). For qualitative variables odds ratios ( ORs) were also calculated. Outpatients with APD (with respect to those hosted in the detention center) resulted: to be older ( p = .02), to be less likely married ( p = .01), to have more pre-onset psychiatric comorbidity ( p = .05), to have more pre-onset substance poly-misuse ( p = .01), to have more previous psychiatric hospitalizations ( p
Antisocial personality disorder · Comorbidity · Imprisonment · Injury prevention · Logistic regression · Medical emergency · Mental health · Odds · Odds ratio · Personality · Personality disorders · Poison control · Psychiatry · Recidivism · Substance abuse · Clinical Psychology · Medicine · Personality Disorders and Psychopathology · Psychology · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology · Internal Medicine
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