title: Domestic Violence in Methamphetamine Psychotic Users, Psychiatric Inpatients, and Healthy People: A Comparative Study.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Domestic violence is a serious threat to the physical and mental health of women. The aim of the present study was to find and compare the frequency of domestic violence between methamphetamine users, patients with psychiatric disorders, and healthy people.
  
  
  METHODS
  In this analytical cross-sectional study, methamphetamine users (n=30) and patients with psychiatric disorders (n=30) were women whose husbands were hospitalized during 2014 in Shafa Psychiatric Hospital in Guilan. Diagnosis was done with DSMIV-TR. Healthy people (n=60) were women whose husbands had no primary or drug induced psychiatric disorder or addiction. CTS-2 test was used to evaluate violence.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The frequency of psychological, physical and sexual violence in the groups suffering from psychiatric disease and methamphetamine users was higher than the healthy group (P=0.001). We observed a direct correlation between the mean of psychological and physical violence in the three groups (r=0.9, P=0.001), (r=0.7, P=0.0001) and (r=0.53, P=0.005), respectively. Direct correlation between the psychological and physical violence was only observed in the healthy group (r=0.8, P=0.007).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results showed that methamphetamine users such as psychiatric patients are at increased risk of violence. Domestic violence screening of these patients is necessary. It seems that this substance is a new source of increasing domestic violence with more undesirable outcomes in Iran.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran.
authors.forename: Seyed Mohammad Rasoul
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Khalkhali
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran.
authors.forename: Kiomars
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Najafi
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran.
authors.forename: Reza
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ahmadi
authors.affiliation: Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, School of Medicine, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran.
authors.forename: Azadeh
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Yousefnezhad
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran.
authors.forename: Azam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hamidi
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran.
authors.forename: Masoumeh
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ellahi
authors.affiliation: Psychiatrist, Ilam, Iran.
authors.forename: Ali
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Amiri
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran.
authors.forename: Afsar
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Montakhabi
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran.
authors.forename: Maryam
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zavarmousavi
keywords: Domestic violence; Inpatients; Methamphetamine; Psychotic disorders