Self-harm in England: a tale of three cities. Multicentre study of self-harm.
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...This conflation of suicidal and NSSI behaviors is particularly true within European countries, where the construct ‘deliberate self-harm’ (DSH) is used as an umbrella term for self-destructive behaviors regardless of suicidal intent (Hawton et al. 2007 ; Madge et al. 2008)....
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...Two decades later, this had evolved so that paracetamol was understood, at least in the UK, as responsible for a rising number of deaths with extensive media publicity describing the problem.(30) Efforts to curb package size were encouraged by the Hawton group, based on surveys of overdose patients conducted in the 1990’s that suggested that impulsive behavior was responsible for most suicides: utilization of whatever was readily available in the home....
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...For further details see (Hawton et al., 2007) and (Bergen et al., 2010)....
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...30per1,000,000 inmalesand females, respectively, in England and Wales in 2010), but official suicide figures considerably underestimate the likely true rate of suicide in adolescents (Gosney & Hawton, 2007)....
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...We have investigated repetition of self-harm and suicide following self-harm in a large sample of children and adolescents who presented to hospitals in the Multicentre Study of Self-harm in England because of intentional self-poisoning or self-injury....
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...Importantly, the way we obtained mortality information through national flagging means that we should have identified all deaths that occurred in England, Wales and Scotland....
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...…longitudinal studybasedondata collected through theMulticentre Study of Self-harm in England (Bergen, Hawton, Waters, Cooper, & Kapur, 2010; Hawton et al., 2007) to investigate both risk of repetition of self-harm and of suicide following self-harm in children and adolescents, and the…...
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...Alcohol may influence both the occurrence of self-harm, through contributing to interpersonal and other problems and an individual’s reactions to them, and impulsivity and aggression, both of which are important factors in suicidal behaviour [26]....
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...Self-harm patients have a greatly elevated risk of subsequent suicide [7, 21, 36] and at least half of all individuals who die by suicide have a history of self-harm [1, 11, 19], with a quarter having episodes in the year before death....
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