Citation

McGibben L, Ballard CG, Handy S, Mohan RN, Silveira WR. Br. J. Psychiatry 1992; 161: 110-112.

Affiliation

Department of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Walsgrave Hospital, Coventry.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1992, Royal College of Psychiatry)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1638305

Abstract

The mean annual rates of hospital admission for deliberate self-poisoning were calculated for Caucasian and Asian 12-15-year-olds between 1982 and 1990 as 2.31 and 2.47 per 1000 respectively. There was an excess of girls in each group.

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