Methodological limitations in the measurement and statistical modeling of violence among adults with mental illness.
Kiersten L JohnsonSarah L DesmaraisStephen J TuellerRichard A Van DornPublished in: International journal of methods in psychiatric research (2019)
Our findings suggest that the validity of conclusions from some extant research on violence among adults with mental illness should be questioned. Efforts are needed to improve both the measurement of violence, through inclusion of self-report, and the statistical modeling of violence, using lagged rather than nonlagged models with improved spatiotemporal contiguity.