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040 _aAFVC
100 _aKarystianis, George
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245 _aPrevalence of mental illnesses in domestic violence police records :
_btext mining study
_cGeorge Karystianis, Annabeth Simpson, Armita Adily, Peter Schofield, David Greenberg, Handan Wand, Goran Nenadic and Tony Butler
260 _bJMIR Publications,
_c2020
500 _aJournal of Medical Internet Research, 2020, 22:12, 16 pages (Open access)
520 _aBackground: The New South Wales Police Force (NSWPF) records details of significant numbers of domestic violence (DV)events they attend each year as both structured quantitative data and unstructured free text. Accessing information contained in the free text such as the victim’s and persons of interest (POI's) mental health status could be useful in the better management of DV events attended by the police and thus improve health, justice, and social outcomes. Objective: The aim of this study is to present the prevalence of extracted mental illness mentions for POIs and victims in police-recorded DV events. Methods: We applied a knowledge-driven text mining method to recognize mental illness mentions for victims and POIs from police-recorded DV events. Results: In 416,441 police-recorded DV events with single POIs and single victims, we identified 64,587 events (15.51%) with at least one mental illness mention versus 4295 (1.03%) recorded in the structured fixed fields. Two-thirds (67,582/85,880,78.69%) of mental illnesses were associated with POIs versus 21.30% (18,298/85,880) with victims; depression was the most common condition in both victims (2822/12,589, 22.42%) and POIs (7496/39,269, 19.01%). Mental illnesses were most common among POIs aged 0-14 years (623/1612, 38.65%) and in victims aged over 65 years (1227/22,873, 5.36%).Conclusions: A wealth of mental illness information exists within police-recorded DV events that can be extracted using text mining. The results showed mood-related illnesses were the most common in both victims and POIs. Further investigation is required to determine the reliability of the mental illness mentions against sources of diagnostic information. (Authors' abstract). Read a summary of this article and related research in The Conversation (1 February 2021), written by George Karystianis and Tony Butler. Record #7014
650 _aDATA ANALYSIS
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650 _aDOMESTIC VIOLENCE
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650 _aINTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
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650 _aMENTAL HEALTH
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650 4 _9380
_aMENTAL ILLNESS
650 4 _aPERPETRATORS
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650 _aPOLICE
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650 _aRISK FACTORS
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650 4 _aVICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
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651 _aINTERNATIONAL
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651 4 _aAUSTRALIA
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700 _aSimpson, Annabeth
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700 _aDaily, Armita
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700 _aSchofield, Peter
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700 _aGreenberg, David
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700 _aWand, Handan
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700 _aNenadic, Goran
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700 _aButler, Tony
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773 0 _tJournal of Medical Internet Research, 2020, 22:12, 16 pages (Open access)
830 _aJournal of Medical Internet Research
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856 _uhttps://www.jmir.org/2020/12/e23725/
856 _uhttps://theconversation.com/we-analysed-almost-500-000-police-reports-of-domestic-violence-mental-health-was-an-issue-153649
_zThe Conversation, 1 February 2021
942 _2ddc
_cARTICLE