Repeat self-harm: application of hurdle models.

نویسندگان

  • Jennifer Bethell
  • Anne E Rhodes
  • Susan J Bondy
  • W Y Wendy Lou
  • Astrid Guttmann
چکیده

Among those who present to the emergency department for self-harm, many will repeat. Self-harm repetition is an outcome of interest in both observational and intervention studies. However, few such studies analyse the number of repeat self-harm presentations. Here, hurdle models are introduced as a potentially useful statistical method for these analyses. Emergency department data from the Province of Ontario, Canada, are used to illustrate an example of implementing hurdle models and interpreting their results.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science

دوره 196 3  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2010