Deliberate Self-Harm: Clinical and Socio-Economic Characteristics of 368 Patients
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Deliberate self-harm: clinical and socio-economic characteristics of 368 patients.
In this study 368 patients were interviewed after they had attended the Bristol Royal Infirmary Accident and Emergency Department following a non-fatal act of deliberate self-harm. There were twice as many women (247) as men (121), and two thirds of the patients were in the 15-35 age group. Ninety-five per cent had taken a drug overdose, most commonly one or more of the tranquillizers, antidepr...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 1975
ISSN: 0007-1250,1472-1465
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.127.6.564