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Has the frequency of violent behaviour increased during COVID-19 pandemic?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

C.-A. Crisan ,
D. Ureche  and
C. Siserman
C.-A. Crisan*
Affiliation:
Psychiatric Clinic 1, Emergency County Hospital Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Neurosciences, Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
D. Ureche
Affiliation:
Community Medicine, Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
C. Siserman
Affiliation:
Community Medicine, Legal Institut Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
*
*Corresponding author.

Abstract

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Introduction

Covid-19 pandemic represents o very stressfull period for many individuals. Intimate partner violence is typically experienced by women but can also be experienced by men. During quarantine due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the risk for domestic violence increased.

Objectives

The aim of this study was to compare domestic violence durind two different periods - 14.03.2019-30.09.2019 and the same period of the year 2020.

Methods

We analyzed the data base of the Legal Institut from Cluj-napoca and we selected the cases with domestic violence.

Results

The violent behaviour incresed durind 2020. Due to the feelings of frustration and agitation, agression arises with possible trasgenerational transmission of trauma and violence.

Conclusions

Taking into consideration that Covid19 pandemic is a very stressfull period for all individuals, a need of programms aimed to prevent acts of domestic violence and to achieve accurate assessment of multiple domains of abuse (psychological, physical, sexual) provided by psychologists, psychiatrists, social and legal services emerged.

Keywords

interpersonal violencecrimeCovid-19 pandemicpsychiatric disturbances
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European Psychiatry , Volume 64 , Special Issue S1: Abstracts of the 29th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2021 , pp. S315
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