ArticleCanadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique2013
Emergency department presentations for self-harm among Ontario youth.
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- Rurality and Risk of Suicide Attempts and Death by Suicide among People Living in Four English-speaking High-income Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie · 2020Pooled it
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- Self-harm and rurality in Canada: an analysis of hospitalization data from 2015 to 2019.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2023Article
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- Rurality as a Risk Factor for Attempted Suicide and Death by Suicide in Ontario, Canada.Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie · 2022Article
- Near-Fatal Self-Harm Among Canadian Adolescents.Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie · 2022Article
- Sentinel surveillance of substance-related self-harm in Canadian emergency departments, 2011 - 19.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Development of a Self-Harm Monitoring System for Victoria.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
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- Acute mental health service use is increased in rheumatoid arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis: a population-based cohort study.Therapeutic advances in musculoskeletal disease · 2020Article
- Changing Rates of Self-Harm and Mental Disorders by Sex in Youths Presenting to Ontario Emergency Departments: Repeated Cross-Sectional Study.Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie · 2019Observational
- Self-Inflicted Injury-Canadian Hospitals Injury Reporting and Prevention Program (CHIRPP-SI): a new surveillance tool for detecting self-inflicted injury events in emergency departments.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2019Article
- The Cumulative Incidence of Self-Reported Suicide-Related Thoughts and Attempts in Young Canadians.Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie · 2019Article
- Tracking progress in suicide prevention in Indigenous communities: a challenge for public health surveillance in Canada.BMC public health · 2018Article
- Hospitalizations due to self-poisoning at a Canadian paediatric hospital.Paediatrics & child health · 2018Article
- The association of exposure to suicide-related Internet content and emergency department visits in children: A population-based time series analysis.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2018Article
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- Community pharmacists and the assessment and management of suicide risk.Canadian pharmacists journal : CPJ = Revue des pharmaciens du Canada : RPC · 2015Article
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Abstract
objectivesSelf-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.
methodsAdministrative data capturing every emergency department visit in Ontario between April 1, 2002 and March 31, 2009 were used to identify and describe self-harm presentations.
resultsOver the 7-year period between 2002/03 and 2008/09, there were 16,835 self-harm presentations by 12,907 youth. Two thirds of self-harm presentations were self-poisonings (almost always with medicinal agents), followed by self-cutting, which accounted for about one quarter. Incidence rates were higher in girls than boys, increased with age, were inversely related to neighbourhood income and were highest in rural areas. Self-harm accounted for about 1 in 100 emergency department presentations by youth, but also a disproportionate number of presentations triaged as high acuity or admitted to hospital (about 1 in 20).
conclusionSelf-harm is an important public health issue, requiring a comprehensive approach to prevention. Ontario has useful data with which to study emergency department presentations for self-harm, and the similarities between self-harm presentations among Ontario youth and those reported from the United States and Europe suggest generalizability of results between populations. Further research is needed to address the reasons for the geographic differences in frequency of self-harm.
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