Article ; Online: Identifying typologies among persons admitted to hospital for non-fatal intentional self-harm in Victoria, Australia.
Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
2019 Volume 54, Issue 12, Page(s) 1497–1504
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.: Methods: A ... ...
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. 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. 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. Conclusions: Preventative interventions need to take into account that those who are admitted to hospital for self-harm are a heterogeneous group. |
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MeSH term(s) | Adolescent ; Adult ; Demography ; Female ; Hospitalization/statistics & numerical data ; Hospitals ; Humans ; Male ; Mental Health/statistics & numerical data ; Middle Aged ; Retrospective Studies ; Rural Population ; Self-Injurious Behavior/epidemiology ; Self-Injurious Behavior/psychology ; Victoria/epidemiology ; Young Adult |
Language | English |
Publishing date | 2019-07-16 |
Publishing country | Germany |
Document type | Journal Article |
ZDB-ID | 623071-4 |
ISSN | 1433-9285 ; 0037-7813 ; 0933-7954 |
ISSN (online) | 1433-9285 |
ISSN | 0037-7813 ; 0933-7954 |
DOI | 10.1007/s00127-019-01747-1 |
Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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