@article{ref1,
title="Psychological distress, self-harm and attempted suicide in UK 17-year olds: prevalence and sociodemographic inequalities",
journal="British journal of psychiatry",
year="2021",
author="Fitzsimons, Emla and Patalay, Praveetha",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="In a large (n = 10 103), nationally representative sample of 17-year-olds 16.1% had experienced high psychological distress in the past 30 days, 24.1% had self-harmed  in the previous 12 months and 7.4% had ever attempted suicide. Females, White  adolescents, sexual minorities and those from more socioeconomically disadvantaged  families had worse mental health outcomes; with the exceptions of no detected  differences in attempted suicide by ethnicity and in self-harm by socioeconomic  position. <br><br>FINDINGS include a narrower gender gap in self-harm at age 17 (males  20.1%, females 28.2%) compared with at age 14 (males 8.5%; females 22.8%) and 2-4  times higher prevalence in sexual minority adolescents (39.3% high distress, 55.8%  self-harmed, 21.7% attempted suicide compared with 13.4%, 20.5% and 5.8%,  respectively, in heterosexual adolescents).<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0007-1250",
doi="10.1192/bjp.2020.258",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2020.258"
}