Citation

Sinclair JM, Hawton KE. Psychiatr. Danub. 2006; 18(Suppl 1): 86.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, OX3 7JX Oxford, UK. julia.sinclair@psych.ox.ac.uk.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, Facultas Universitatis Studiorum Zagrabiensis - Danube Symposion of Psychiatry)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

16964005

Abstract

Data from large epidemiological studies indicate high rates of repetition and mortality following deliberate self-harm (DSH), however much less is known about the long term morbidity in this population. This study aims to investigate the morbidity after seven years in a cohort of 150 patients recruited in Oxford, for the WHO/European Multi-centre Study on Parasuicide in 1997. Of the 150 patients recruited in 1997, 143 (95.3%) were traced to current address or death; In total there had been 8 deaths over the follow-up period - 5.6% (Males 9.2%; Females 3.4%). 57% of participants had repeat DSH in the seven year follow-up and 25% in the last year. 73% (71/97) fulfilled the criteria for at least one current psychiatric diagnosis at follow up. New data will be presented on the main clinical outcomes in this cohort, seven years after an episode of DSH, together with an examination of those clinical variables present at the index episode in 1997 which act as prognostic factors of long term outcome in this predominantly young population.

Language: en