Citation

Emerson E, Kiernan C, Alborz A, Reeves D, Mason H, Swarbrick R, Mason L, Hatton C. Res. Dev. Disabil. 2001; 22(1): 67-75.

Affiliation

Hester Adrian Research Centre, University of Manchester, England, UK. eric.emerson@lancaster.ac.uk

Copyright

(Copyright © 2001, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

11263631

Abstract

Information was collected on 95 people with mental retardation who had been identified seven years previously as showing severe self-injurious behavior. At follow up 71% of participants were still showing self-injurious behavior of a severity which presented a management problem for care staff. The occurrence of specific topographies of self-injury was extremely stable among the group showing persistent self-injury. Finally, self-injury status at follow-up was predicted with 76% accuracy by a logistic regression model containing three variables: site of injury (higher persistence being shown by people exhibiting head directed self-injury); reported (greater) stability of self-injury when first identified; and (younger) age.

Language: en