title: Risk of Criminal Victimisation in Outpatients with Common Mental Health Disorders.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Crime victimisation is a serious problem in psychiatric patients. However, research has focused on patients with severe mental illness and few studies exist that address victimisation in other outpatient groups, such as patients with depression. Due to large differences in methodology of the studies that address crime victimisation, a comparison of prevalence between psychiatric diagnostic groups is hard to make. Objectives of this study were to determine and compare one-year prevalence of violent and non-violent criminal victimisation among outpatients from different diagnostic psychiatric groups and to examine prevalence differences with the general population.
  
  
  METHODS
  Criminal victimisation prevalence was measured in 300 outpatients living in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Face-to-face interviews were conducted with outpatients with depressive disorder (n = 102), substance use disorder (SUD, n = 106) and severe mental illness (SMI, n = 92) using a National Crime Victimisation Survey, and compared with a matched general population sample (n = 10865).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Of all outpatients, 61% reported experiencing some kind of victimisation over the past year; 33% reported violent victimisation (3.5 times more than the general population) and 36% reported property crimes (1.2 times more than the general population). Outpatients with depression (67%) and SUD (76%) were victimised more often than SMI outpatients (39%). Younger age and hostile behaviour were associated with violent victimisation, while being male and living alone were associated with non-violent victimisation. Moreover, SUD was associated with both violent and non-violent victimisation.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Outpatients with depression, SUD, and SMI are at increased risk of victimisation compared to the general population. Furthermore, our results indicate that victimisation of violent and non-violent crimes is more common in outpatients with depression and SUD than in outpatients with SMI living independently in the community.
authors.affiliation: Arkin Institute for Mental Health Care, PO Box 75848, 1070 AV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Sabine C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Meijwaard
authors.affiliation: Arkin Institute for Mental Health Care, PO Box 75848, 1070 AV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Martijn
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kikkert
authors.affiliation: Arkin Institute for Mental Health Care, PO Box 75848, 1070 AV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Liselotte D
authors.initials: LD
authors.lastname: de Mooij
authors.affiliation: Arkin Institute for Mental Health Care, PO Box 75848, 1070 AV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Nick M
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: Lommerse
authors.affiliation: Arkin Institute for Mental Health Care, PO Box 75848, 1070 AV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Jaap
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Peen
authors.affiliation: University of Groningen, University Medical Centre Groningen, Department of Psychiatry, Hanzeplein 1, 9713 GZ, Groningen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Robert A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Schoevers
authors.affiliation: Arkin Institute for Mental Health Care, PO Box 75848, 1070 AV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Rien
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Van
authors.affiliation: Arkin Institute for Mental Health Care, PO Box 75848, 1070 AV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Wencke
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: de Wildt
authors.affiliation: University of Groningen, Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, Department of Clinical Psychology, Grote Kruisstraat 2-1, 9721 TS, Groningen, The Netherlands; University Utrecht, Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, Department of Clinical Psychology, Padualaan 14, 3584 CH, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Claudi L H
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Bockting
authors.affiliation: Arkin Institute for Mental Health Care, PO Box 75848, 1070 AV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Free University of Amsterdam, Department of Clinical Psychology, Room 2B-73, Van der Boechorststraat 1, 1081 CD, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Jack J M
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Dekker
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D019548:Crime Victims / Q000523:psychology*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D008603:Mental Health; D008875:Middle Aged; D009426:Netherlands / Q000453:epidemiology; D010045:Outpatients; D015995:Prevalence; D062486:Public Health Surveillance