@article{ref1,
title="The potential of general practice to support young people who self-harm: a narrative review",
journal="BJGP open",
year="2022",
author="Mughal, Faraz and Dikomitis, Lisa and Babatunde, Opeyemi O. and Chew-Graham, Carolyn A.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Self-harm in young people is a growing public health concern. Young people commonly present to their GP for help with self-harm, and thus general practice may be a key setting to support young people who have self-harmed. <br><br>AIM: To examine the potential of general practice to support young people aged 10-25 years who have harmed themselves. DESIGN & SETTING: A narrative review of published and grey literature. <br><br>METHOD: The Scale for the Assessment of Narrative Review Articles (SANRA) was used to guide a narrative review to examine the potential of general practice to support young people who have self-harmed. The evidence is presented textually. <br><br>RESULTS: The included evidence showed that GPs have a key role in supporting young people, and they sometimes relied on gut feeling when handling uncertainty on how to help young people who had self-harmed. Young people described the importance of initial clinician responses after disclosing self-harm, and if they were perceived to be negative, the self-harm could become worse. <br><br>CONCLUSION: In context of the evidence included, this review found that general practice is a key setting for the identification and management of self-harm in young people; but improvements are needed to enhance general practice care for young people to fulfil its potential.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2398-3795",
doi="10.3399/BJGPO.2021.0159",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3399/BJGPO.2021.0159"
}