BACKGROUND Self-harm entails high costs to individuals and society in terms of suicide risk, morbidity and healthcare expenditure. Repetition of self-harm confers yet higher risk of suicide and risk assessment of self-harm patients forms a key component of the health care management of self-harm patients. To date, there has been no systematic review published which synthesises the extensive evi...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of adolescent self-harm in Northern Ireland (NI) and its associated factors are unknown. Given the established relationship between conflict and mental health, and NI׳s recent history of conflict, it is important to investigate the factors associated with self-harm in NI. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of self-harm in NI adolescents and the factors associ...

OBJECTIVES Self-harm is an important public health issue among youth, including as a major risk factor for suicide (a leading cause of death in this age group). This study used population-based emergency department data to describe clinical and demographic characteristics of emergency department presentations for self-harm among youth (12-17 year-olds) in the province of Ontario, Canada. METH...

Introduction: According to the World Health Organization (WHO) report, acute depression disorders are the second largest health problem in the world which can cause disability and imposes huge costs on individuals and societies. This study aims to investigate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of using psychotherapy in patients with depression for prevention of suicide an...

Self-harm is a much more common pathology within the prison environment than outside of this, so much so that it can be considered specific to it. For 7 years, in the biggest prison hospital in Romania, self-harm was present in 5% of the hospitalized patients, with a total of 762 cases. The mechanisms of self-harm were the ingestion of foreign bodies (63%) and the insertion of foreign bodies in...

Self-harm of the skin is a complex problem encountered mainly in adolescents and young adults. The aim of the study was to assess the prevalence of deliberate cutaneous self-harm without suicidal intent among secondary school teenagers of the Lodz region. A self-administered specially designed anonymous questionnaire was delivered to 1,448 secondary school teenagers, aged 12-19 years. The lifet...

OBJECTIVE Research on deliberate self-harm (intentionally injuring oneself without suicidal intent) has focused on clinical and forensic populations. Studying only these populations, which typically have serious psychopathology, may lead to inflated estimates of the association between self-harm and psychiatric disorder, as well as of the prevalence of deliberate self-harm. The present study in...