Citation

Ougrin D. J. Child Psychol. Psychiatry 2014; 55(4): 349-351.

Affiliation

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, UK.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/jcpp.12232

PMID

24661063

Abstract

The accompanying cross-sectional study by Brunner et al. (2014) investigates the prevalence and correlates of self-injury in adolescents. It is one of the largest epidemiological studies of its kind published to date. Self-injury by cutting is a strong independent predictor of suicide (Hawton et al., 2012), therefore, understanding the prevalence and psychosocial correlates of this behaviour is of great importance.

Language: en