Asociación entre trastornos mentales y delitos contra familiares o no por personas inimputables. Guayaquil-Ecuador 2013-2022

Abstract

Mental disorders are problems that require effective and relevant attention, as well as the association between variables to achieve their overcoming through interventions and to increase the well-being of those who present them. The objective of the studyis to determine the association between mental disorders and crimes committed against members of the family group or not by people declared not imputable who were interned in the institute. With a quantitative approach, non-experimental design, retrospective cross-sectional and correlational scope, we worked with a population of 76 participants, mostly men, in middle adulthood, mestizo, single, from urban areas, with primary education level and low socio-economic condition; The main diagnosis was schizophrenia and the crime of violence against women or members of the family nucleus, the victims being generally the parents of the aggressors; no statistically significant association was found between mental disorders and crimes committed.