Citation

Angrave P. Emerg. Nurse 2012; 20(1): 15.

Affiliation

Canterbury Christ Church University, Kent.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, RCN Publishing)

DOI

10.7748/en.20.1.15.s9

PMID

27718611

Abstract

This quantitative non-experimental descriptive survey refers to results from a self-administered postal questionnaire to measure emergency nurses' attitudes to deliberate self-harm. Defined as behaviour that may not be intended to cause death but is carried out in the knowledge that it is potentially harmful, self-harm is said to include cutting, burning, attempted drowning, attempted hanging and self-poisoning.

Language: en