The association between violence exposure and general and cause-specific mortality in people using mental health services: cohort study
People with mental illness, who are exposed to assault, experience greater mortality than those who are not exposed. Excess mortality attributable to violence exposure in people with mental illness was related to deaths from natural and external causes.
Authors
- Amelia Jewell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0887-2159)
- Vishal Bhavsar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7519-0599)
- Robert Stewart
- Nabihah Rafi
- Hitesh Shetty
Institutions
- King's College London (GB)
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BJPsych Open
- Published
- 2026-01-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2025.10938
- Primary Topic
- Gun Ownership and Violence Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- UK Research and Innovation
- National Institute for Health and Care Research
- Department of Health and Social Care
- King's College London
- Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London
- NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre
- Medical Research Council
- National Institute for Health Research Applied Research Collaboration South London