This is a disease that has affected thousands of people over the years and even the celebrities ranging over various subjects throughout different corners of the globe as also been affected by this. There have been many people affected with schizophrenia who become violent at sudden times, but it has been found that they do so for reasons that are quite unrelated to their existing illness. This notable finding has come out according to a new study analyzing data that has been conducted by the Clinical Antipsychotic Trials for Intervention Effectiveness or the CATIE. It has also been stated in this regard that the CATIE was funded by the National Institute of Mental Health or the NIMH, a distinguished component of the premiere funding organization National Institutes of Health or the NIH.  

Through the proper utilization of the data from a group of 1,445 participants at the Clinical Antipsychotic Trials for Intervention Effectiveness Dr. Jeffrey Swanson, the eminent investigator of Duke University, in conjunction with his colleagues went through the very process of through examination of the relationship between childhood antisocial behavior, that include conduct disorder symptoms, and adult violence among people affected with schizophrenia. It has been affirmed by the group of researchers that the percentage of participants taken as a whole who committed acts of violence happened to be 19 percent. Furthermore, the people affected with a history of childhood conduct problems reported violence twice as frequently (28 percent) as those without conduct problems (14 percent). The researchers have perceived that in both the groups, violence happened to be among those who were unemployed or underemployed, living with family or in restrictive settings that may be a halfway house or even a hospital or any medicinal institution, and has been recently arrested, or involved with the police.

In both the groups violence was a common factor that was associated with alcohol and substance abuse. But it should also be note that unlike the group devoid of childhood conduct problems, violence in the group that is related with childhood conduct problems was connected even with levels of alcohol and substance use considered below the threshold for abuse. In addition, the psychotic symptoms were not significantly associated with violence among those participants with a history of childhood conduct problems. On the contrary, the occurrence of psychotic symptoms was associated with an enhancement in violence in the middle of participants without a plausible history of childhood conduct problems.