@article{ref1,
title="Crisis card following self-harm: 12-month follow-up of a randomised controlled trial",
journal="British journal of psychiatry",
year="2005",
author="Evans, Joanne and Evans, M. and Morgan, H. G. and Hayward, A. and Gunnell, David",
volume="187",
number="",
pages="186-187",
abstract="No intervention has been shown to be effective in preventing repetition of self-harm. In the 6-month follow-up of a large randomised controlled trial, we previously reported no effectiveness of the provision of a card offering 24-h crisis telephone consultation on repetition of self-harm. However, there was a possible benefit among those presenting following a first episode (OR=0.64, 95% CI 0.34-1.22). Here we report the 12-month follow-up of the trial. The results confirm no overall benefit of the intervention (OR=1.19, 95% CI 0.85-1.67). Among those with a first episode of self-harm, the possible benefit of the intervention had diminished (OR=0.89, 95% CI 0.52-1.52), although a modest effect cannot be excluded.",
language="",
issn="0007-1250",
doi="10.1192/bjp.187.2.186",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.187.2.186"
}