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People with mental illness are overrepresented throughout the criminal justice system. In Italy, the Judicial Psychiatric Hospitals are now on the edge of their closure in favor of small-scale therapeutic facilities (REMS). Therefore, when patients end their duty for criminal behaviors, their clinical management moves back to the outpatie...
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... sociodemographic, clinical, and forensic characteristics are presented using descriptive statistics (Table 1). χ 2 test for dichotomous variables were performed to compare patients with and without a lifetime substance use (Tables 2-6). Nonparametric Mann-Whitney U test was used for continuous variables, comparing patients with and without lifetime SUD. ...Context 2
... patients had clear notation regarding the presence of a lifetime SUD. We found statistically significant differences between patients with lifetime SUD versus patients without lifetime SUD (Tables 2-6 and Figure 1) in terms of absence of a partner (87.2% vs. 77.6%; p < 0.05), psychiatric comorbidities (84.6% vs. 60.0%; ...