Global prevalence of psychosocial assessment following hospital-treated self-harm: systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hospital-treated self-harm is common, costly and associated with repeated self-harm and suicide. Providing a comprehensive psychosocial assessment following self-harm is recommended by professional bodies and may improve outcomes.

Aims

To review the provision of psychosocial assessments after hospital-presenting self-harm and the extent to which macro-level factors indicative of service provision explain variability in these estimates.

Method

We searched five electronic databases to 3 January 2023 for studies reporting data on the proportion of patients and/or events that were provided a psychosocial assessment. Pooled weighted prevalence estimates were calculated with the random-effects model. Random-effects meta-regression was used to investigate between-

SUBMITTER: Witt K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10790226 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature