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Children and adolescents who try to harm, hurt or kill themselves: a report of further analysis from the national survey of mental health of children and adolescents in Greta Britain in 1999
- Authors:
- MELTZER Howard, et al
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Office for National Statistics
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 70p.
- Place of publication:
- Newport
The main aim of this report is to present prevalence rates of self-harm among children and adolescents aged 5-15 in England, Scotland and Wales during the first half of 1999. The way the questions were phrased means that it is difficult to distinguish between self-harm with the intention of committing suicide and self-harm without that intention, i.e. self-mutilation. Therefore, most of the analysis in this report is presented by source and covers any attempt by children to harm, hurt or kill themselves. Information was collected on 83% of the 12,529 children eligible for interview from up to three sources resulting in at least some data for 10,438 children and adolescents aged 5-15 in Great Britain. According to parents, approximately 1.3% of 5-10 year olds had ever tried to harm, hurt or kill themselves. The lowest rate, 0.4% was found among 5-7 year old girls rising to 2.1% of 8-10 year old boys.The rate of self harm among the sample of young children with no mental disorder was 0.8%. The rate increased dramatically to 6.2% of children diagnosed as having an anxiety disorder and 7.5% of those who had a conduct disorder, hyperkinetic disorder or a less common mental disorder.
Relationship of suicide rates to social factors and availability of lethal methods: comparison of suicide in Newcastle upon Tyne 1961-1965 and 1985-1994
- Authors:
- SCHAPIRA Kurt, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 178, May 2001, pp.458-464.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Studies causes of change in suicide rate over a 30-year period in Newcastle upon Tyne. Suicide rates and methods, based on coroners' inquest records, were compared over two periods (1961-1965 and 1985-1994) and differences were related to changes in exposure to poisons and prescribed drugs, and to socio-demographic changes. Finds that demographic and social changes had taken place which would adversely affect suicide rates. However, a dramatic fall was found in the rate for women, and a modest decline in that for men. Reduced exposure to carbon monoxide and to barbiturates coincided with the fall in rates. Concludes that reduced exposure to lethal methods was responsible for the fall in rate in both genders, while the gender difference in favour of women may be related to their preference for non-violent methods or to their being less affected by the social changes.