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Hospital care and repetition following self-harm: multicentre comparison of self-poisoning and self-injury

Lilley, Rachael; Owens, David; Horrocks, Judith; House, Allan; Noble, Rachael; Bergen, Helen; Hawton, Keith; Casey, Deborah; Simkin, Sue; Murphy, Elizabeth; Cooper, Jayne; Kapur, Navneet

British journal of psychiatry. 2008;192(6):440.

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Quantitative research about self-harm largely deals with self-poisoning, despite the high incidence of self-injury. AIMS: We compared patterns of hospital care and repetition associated with self-poisoning and self-injury. METHOD: Demographic and clinical data were collected in a multicentre, prospective cohort study, involving 10,498 consecutive episodes of self-harm at six English teaching hospitals. RESULTS: Compared with those who self-poisoned, people who cut themselves were more likely to have self-harmed previously and to have received support from mental health services, but they were far less likely to be admitted to the general hospital or receive a psychosocial assessment. Although only 17% of people repeated self-harm during the 18 months of study, survival analysis that takes account of all episodes revealed a repetition rate of 33% in the year following an episode: 47% after episodes of self-cutting and 31% after self-poisoning (P<0.001). Of those who repeated, a third switched method of self-harm. CONCLUSIONS: Hospital services offer less to people who have cut themselves, although they are far more likely to repeat, than to those who have self-poisoned. Attendance at hospital should result in psychosocial assessment of needs regardless of method of self-harm.

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eng
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England
Volume:
192
Issue:
6
Start page:
440
Digital Object Identifier:
10.1192/bjp.bp.107.043380
Pubmed Identifier:
18515895
Pii Identifier:
192/6/440
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Active

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Manchester eScholar ID:
uk-ac-man-scw:76244
Created by:
Donaldson, Iain
Created:
26th January, 2010, 13:53:35
Last modified by:
Donaldson, Iain
Last modified:
12th March, 2014, 09:03:54

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