Self-harm and suicidal ideation among young people is more often recorded by child protection than health services in an Australian population cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We investigated patterns of service contact for self-harm and suicidal ideation recorded by a range of human service agencies - including health, police and child protection - with specific focus on overlap and sequences of contacts, age of first contact and demographic and intergenerational characteristics associated with different service responses to self-harm.

Methods

Participants were 91,597 adolescents for whom multi-agency linked data were available in a longitudinal study of a population cohort in New South Wales, Australia. Self-harm and suicide-related incidents from birth to 18 years of age were derived from emergency department, inpatient hospital admission, mental health ambulatory, child protection and police administrative records. Descriptive statis

SUBMITTER: O'Hare K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10666519 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature