Citation

Morgan HG, Jones EM, Owen JH. Br. J. Psychiatry 1993; 163: 111-112.

Affiliation

Department of Mental Health, University of Bristol.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1993, Royal College of Psychiatry)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8353677

Abstract

In an attempt to address the low compliance with offers of treatment shown by patients after episodes of non-fatal deliberate self-harm (DSH), patients who had harmed themselves for the first time were offered rapid, easy access to on-call trainee psychiatrists in the event of further difficulties, and they were encouraged to seek help at an early stage should such problems arise. The follow-up data obtained after one year showed a significant reduction of actual or seriously threatened DSH in the experimental group, who also made considerably less demands on medical and psychiatric services, when compared with controls.

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