Autism and self-harm: A population-based and discordant sibling study of young individuals.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Self-harm among young autistic individuals is a clinical challenge, and the risk of premature death by suicide is strongly increased in this group. Using the advantage of total-population and family-based data, we investigated whether autism per se is a risk factor for self-harm independently of psychiatric comorbidities and how it differs from self-harm in non-autistic individuals.

Methods

We used The Stockholm Youth Cohort, a total-population register study, including all residents in Stockholm County aged 0-17 years between 2001 and 2011.Study participants were followed from age 10 to 27 for hospital admissions because of self-harm. We used modified Poisson regression to calculate relative risks (RR) using robust standard error to derive 95% confidence intervals

SUBMITTER: Stark I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10286753 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature