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Unexpected deaths of children and young people in the UK
Aims and method To review the deaths of children and young people who took their own life. We conducted a retrospective analysis of serious incident reports from a National Health Service trust and reviews by the child death overview panels of the local safeguarding children boards. Results We ident...
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Royal College of Psychiatrists
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4817648/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27087988 http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.bp.114.049825 |
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author | Stallard, Paul Maguire, Michelle Daddow, Justin Shepperd, Rosie Foster, Mike Berry, Jill |
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description | Aims and method To review the deaths of children and young people who took their own life. We conducted a retrospective analysis of serious incident reports from a National Health Service trust and reviews by the child death overview panels of the local safeguarding children boards. Results We identified 23 deaths, with annual rates varying considerably between local authorities and over time. Over half of the children (n = 13, 56%) were not known to specialist child and adolescent mental health services, with 11 having no contact with any agency at the time of their death. Hanging was the most common method (n = 20, 87%) and of these, half (n = 11, 55%) were low-level hangings. Clinical implications Training is required to improve awareness, recognition and the assessment of children at risk of taking their own life. Specialist child mental health services should directly assess plans or attempts at hanging and offer advice about the seriousness of attempting this. National data (by age) on children and young people who take their own life should be routinely published to inform clinical and preventive services. |
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spelling | pubmed-48176482016-04-15 Unexpected deaths of children and young people in the UK Stallard, Paul Maguire, Michelle Daddow, Justin Shepperd, Rosie Foster, Mike Berry, Jill BJPsych Bull Original Papers Aims and method To review the deaths of children and young people who took their own life. We conducted a retrospective analysis of serious incident reports from a National Health Service trust and reviews by the child death overview panels of the local safeguarding children boards. Results We identified 23 deaths, with annual rates varying considerably between local authorities and over time. Over half of the children (n = 13, 56%) were not known to specialist child and adolescent mental health services, with 11 having no contact with any agency at the time of their death. Hanging was the most common method (n = 20, 87%) and of these, half (n = 11, 55%) were low-level hangings. Clinical implications Training is required to improve awareness, recognition and the assessment of children at risk of taking their own life. Specialist child mental health services should directly assess plans or attempts at hanging and offer advice about the seriousness of attempting this. National data (by age) on children and young people who take their own life should be routinely published to inform clinical and preventive services. Royal College of Psychiatrists 2016-04 /pmc/articles/PMC4817648/ /pubmed/27087988 http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.bp.114.049825 Text en © 2016 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an open-access article published by the Royal College of Psychiatrists and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Papers Stallard, Paul Maguire, Michelle Daddow, Justin Shepperd, Rosie Foster, Mike Berry, Jill Unexpected deaths of children and young people in the UK |
title | Unexpected deaths of children and young people in the UK |
title_full | Unexpected deaths of children and young people in the UK |
title_fullStr | Unexpected deaths of children and young people in the UK |
title_full_unstemmed | Unexpected deaths of children and young people in the UK |
title_short | Unexpected deaths of children and young people in the UK |
title_sort | unexpected deaths of children and young people in the uk |
topic | Original Papers |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4817648/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27087988 http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.bp.114.049825 |
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