Victim of a Patient with Mental Disorder: A Case Report of a Physical Adult Abuse with Blunt Trauma

Patients with severe mental illness are more likely to be violently victimized than other individuals in the community. People with schizophrenia have more risks of physical assaults. In people with severe mental illness, violent victimization is associated with unemployment, non-adherence to treatment and being a perpetrator of violence. Herein, we reported a 51 year old man with schizophrenia who was found dead with blunt trauma as a consequence of a physical assault. Individual was exposed to blunt trauma to the whole body and blunt trauma was reported to have an effect to the patient's death. No toxic material was detected in toxicological examination. Patients with mental disorders should be followed closely by their family physicians and specialty mental health services in order to deal with and decrease the number of victims of physical assault.