@article{ref1,
title="Identifying typologies among persons admitted to hospital for non-fatal intentional self-harm in Victoria, Australia",
journal="Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology",
year="2019",
author="Clapperton, Angela J.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to determine whether people who have been hospitalised as the result of non-fatal self-harm form meaningful groups based on mechanism of injury, and demographic and mental health-related factors. <br><br>METHODS: A retrospective analysis of 18,103 hospital admissions for self-harm in Victoria, Australia over the 3-year period 2014/2015-2016/2017 recorded on the Victorian Admitted Episodes Dataset (VAED). The VAED records all hospital admissions in public and private hospitals in Victoria. The primary analysis used a two-step method of cluster analysis. Initial analysis determined two distinct groups, one composed of individuals who had a recorded mental illness diagnosis and one composed of individuals with no recorded mental illness diagnosis. Subsequent cluster analysis identified four subgroups within each of the initial two groups. <br><br>RESULTS: Within the diagnosed mental illness subgroups, each subgroup was characterised by a particular mental disorder or a combination of disorders. Within the no diagnosis of mental illness groups, the youngest group was also the most homogenous (all females who self-poisoned), the oldest group had a high proportion of rural/regional residents, the group with the highest proportion of males also had the highest proportion of people who used cutting as the method of self-harm, and the group with the highest proportion of metropolitan residents also had the highest proportion of people who were married. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Preventative interventions need to take into account that those who are admitted to hospital for self-harm are a heterogeneous group.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0933-7954",
doi="10.1007/s00127-019-01747-1",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00127-019-01747-1"
}