@article{ref1,
title="Hospital-presenting self-harm and ideation: comparison of incidence, profile and risk of repetition",
journal="General hospital psychiatry",
year="2019",
author="Griffin, Eve and Bonner, Brendan and O'Hagan, Denise and Kavalidou, Katerina and Corcoran, Paul",
volume="61",
number="",
pages="76-81",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to describe presentations to hospital as a result of self-harm or suicidal ideation and to examine patterns of repetition. <br><br>METHOD: Presentations made to hospital emergency departments in Northern Ireland following self-harm and ideation between April 2012 and March 2017 were recorded by the Northern Ireland Registry of Self-harm. Person-based rates per 100,000 were calculated using national population estimates. Risk of repeat attendance to hospital was examined using Kaplan-Meier analyses. <br><br>RESULTS: A total of 62,213 presentations to emergency departments following self-harm or with ideation were recorded. The rate of self-harm was more than twice the rate of hospital-presenting ideation. Rates of ideation were higher among men, and both self-harm and ideation rates peaked for girls aged 15-19 and men aged 20-24 years. The cumulative probability of repeat attendance to hospital was higher following ideation (52% after 12 months), primarily because 12% of ideation presentations were followed by a subsequent self-harm presentation, whereas 4% of self-harm presentations were followed by ideation. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Our findings indicate that hospital presenters with ideation are at high risk of future self-harm. The transition from ideation to suicidal behaviour is important to consider and research could inform effective and early intervention measures.<br><br>Copyright © 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0163-8343",
doi="10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2019.10.009",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2019.10.009"
}