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People suffering from serious mental illness are at increased risk of various forms of violent victimisation, especially domestic or sexual violence. Victimisation negatively affects the manifestations of mental illness and the quality of life of patients. Patients rarely inform their therapist that they have been victims of violence. This article is a follow-up to the article Victimization of patients with psychotic illness (I.) and deals with the victimization of patients with serious mental illness. The prevalence of victimization in patients with SMI ranges from 22.5 to 71.2%. These ranges are wide. The main reasons, in our opinion, are (I) inaccuracies in the definition of victimization, (II) heterogeneity of the study cohorts, and (III) reporting of victimization over different time periods. More than a quarter of SMI patients (weighted mean 27.9%) were victims of violent victimization during the 12 months. Although comorbid PTSD occurs in 15-43% of patients, it is rarely diagnosed. Consensus on the definition of this term is important for studying the prevalence of victimization. Without this consensus, the ranges of victimization across articles are quite wide. To further explore victimization, it is essential to define it in a consistent way, to map the co-occurrence of victimization, violence, aggression and self-aggression, and to examine their interrelationships in more detail. Improving the diagnosis of comorbidity of psychotic disorders and victimization and its consequences is an important task, as it opens an accessible and known pathway to improve the prognosis of the disease. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Trauma in childhood is likely to be a causal factor in psychotic disorders, and trauma in adulthood negatively contributes to the course of these disorders. However, the detection of trauma in clinical practice is inadequate. Our paper builds on the 2014 systematic review by Látalová, Kamarádová and Praško and focuses on data on specific types of victimization in patients with psychotic disorders. In the first part, we present data on victimization in patients with psychotic disorders. Prevalence of victimization in patients with psychosis varies from 30.4 to 74.1%. This range is wide. In our opinion, the main reasons for this are (I) inaccuracies in the definition of victimization, (II) heterogeneity of the cohorts studied, and (III) reporting of victimization over different time periods. A quarter of patients (weighted mean 24.8%) with psychotic disorder were victims of violent victimization during the 12 months. One-fifth and one-sixth of patients with psychosis experienced physical and sexual victimization in childhood (21.2% and 16.4%, respectively). Between 15% and 20% of patients suffered from comorbid PTSD. However, these comorbidities are not diagnosed in Czech clinical practice. Diagnosis of comorbidity of psychotic disorders, victimization and its consequences is an important task that path the way to improve the prognosis of psychotic illness. Unfortunately, the treatment of PTSD as a comorbidity of psychosis is not established in the Czech Republic and its effectiveness has not been investigated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]