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Messages from Manchester: pilot randomised controlled trial following self-harm.
Kapur, Navneet; Gunnell, David; Hawton, Keith; Nadeem, Sarmad; Khalil, Samer; Longson, Damien; Jordan, Rita; Donaldson, Iain; Emsley, Richard; Cooper, Jayne
The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science. 2013;203:73-4.
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- DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.113.126425
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Abstract
Studies of therapeutic contact following self-harm have had mixed results. We carried out a pilot randomised controlled trial comparing an intervention (information leaflet listing sources of help, two telephone calls soon after presentation and a series of letters over 12 months) to usual treatment alone in 66 adults presenting with self-harm to two hospitals. We found that our methodology was feasible, recruitment was challenging and repeat self-harm was more common in those who received the intervention (12-month repetition rate 34.4% v. 12.5%).