Journal article
Population attributable risk of factors associated with the repetition of self-harm behaviour in young people presenting to clinical services: a systematic review and meta-analysis
K Witt, A Milner, MJ Spittal, S Hetrick, J Robinson, J Pirkis, G Carter
European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry | SPRINGER | Published : 2019
Abstract
The repetition of hospital-treated self-harm by young people is common. However, little work has summarised the modifiable factors associated with this. A thorough understanding of those factors most strongly associated with repetition could guide the development of relevant clinical interventions. We systematically reviewed four databases (EMBASE, Medline, PubMed and PsycINFO) until 15 April 2016 to identify all observational studies of factors for the repetition of self-harm or suicide reattempts (together referred to as ‘self-harm behaviour’) in young people. We quantified the magnitude of association with odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) and calculated the population a..
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Awarded by Victorian Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
Awarded by American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Post-Doctoral Fellowship
Funding Acknowledgements
This work was supported by the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) (Reference number: C4892). Individual authors would also like to acknowledge the following sources of funding: KW is funded by an American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Post-Doctoral Fellowship (Reference number: PDF-0-145-16), SH is funded by an Auckland Medical Research Foundation Douglas Goodfellow Repatriation Fellowship, JR is funded by an NHMRC Early Career Fellowship, and JP is funded by an NHMRC Senior Research Fellowship. Funders had no role in study design, data collection, data analysis, data interpretation, or writing of the manuscript.