TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Rapid national increases in the hospitalisation of Australian youth due to intentional self-harm between 2008 and 2019
JO  - Australasian psychiatry
A1  - Delaney, Sven K.
A1  - Allison, Stephen
A1  - Looi, Jeffrey Cl
A1  - Bidargaddi, Niranjan
A1  - Bastiampillai, Tarun
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - OBJECTIVE: Australian youth mental health services have received significant funding over the past 15 years. We analysed data on hospitalisation due to intentional self-harm to determine whether increased youth services were associated with reduction in a key indicator of youth population mental health. <br><br>METHOD: Trends in national self-harm hospitalisation data from 2008 to 2019 for youth (<25 years) and adults (>25 years) were analysed using joinpoint regression. <br><br>RESULTS: Rates of hospitalisation due to intentional self-harm increased significantly in both male (1.1% per annum, 95% CI [0.2%, 1.9%]) and female (3.0% per annum, 95% CI [0.9%, 5.1%]) youth aged <25 years between 2008 and 2019. Female youth had higher rates of hospitalisation than males, and there were average annual increases of 9.1% (95% CI [2.4%, 16.3%]) and 4.0% (95% CI [0.1%, 7.9%]), and absolute increases of 120% and 47.9%, in the rate of hospitalisation of females aged 0-14 and 15-19, respectively. In contrast, there was no overall change in adults (>25 years). <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Rates of hospitalisation due to intentional self-harm in Australian youth have increased despite significant investment in youth mental health services. This result could be attributable to several sociocultural factors and suggests a critical need for more hospital-based emergency youth mental health services.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1039-8562
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10398562211047919
ID  - ref1
ER  -