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Unacceptably high: an audit of Kimberley self-harm data 2014–2018
OBJECTIVE: To explore the rates and characteristics of self-harm across the Kimberley region of Western Australia. METHOD: Retrospective, cross-sectional audit. We obtained and descriptively analysed routinely collected self-harm data from the Kimberley District of the Western Australia Police Force...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8894678/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33951955 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10398562211010790 |
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author | McPhee, Rob Carlin, Emma Seear, Kimberley Carrington-Jones, Phoebe Sheil, Barbara Lawrence, David Dudgeon, Patricia |
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description | OBJECTIVE: To explore the rates and characteristics of self-harm across the Kimberley region of Western Australia. METHOD: Retrospective, cross-sectional audit. We obtained and descriptively analysed routinely collected self-harm data from the Kimberley District of the Western Australia Police Force (2014–2018) and the Emergency Department Data Collection (June 2017–December 2018). Variables included age, sex, Indigenous status, time of incident, and alcohol and drug use. RESULTS: The rate of emergency department attendance for self-harm was three times higher in the Kimberley than the rest of Western Australia. Both emergency department and police data showed a disproportionately high percentage of incidents involving Aboriginal people, with highest rates in the 15–19 and 20–24 year age groups. Almost 80% of self-harm events recorded by police involving individuals aged 25–50 years involved alcohol. Many self-harm incidents occurred in the evening and at night. CONCLUSIONS: The rates of self-harm across the Kimberley region from 2014–2018 are unacceptably high. Increased funding and alignment of services to meet regional need are required as part of a holistic effort to reduce regional rates of self-harm. |
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spelling | pubmed-88946782022-03-05 Unacceptably high: an audit of Kimberley self-harm data 2014–2018 McPhee, Rob Carlin, Emma Seear, Kimberley Carrington-Jones, Phoebe Sheil, Barbara Lawrence, David Dudgeon, Patricia Australas Psychiatry Rural and Remote Psychiatry OBJECTIVE: To explore the rates and characteristics of self-harm across the Kimberley region of Western Australia. METHOD: Retrospective, cross-sectional audit. We obtained and descriptively analysed routinely collected self-harm data from the Kimberley District of the Western Australia Police Force (2014–2018) and the Emergency Department Data Collection (June 2017–December 2018). Variables included age, sex, Indigenous status, time of incident, and alcohol and drug use. RESULTS: The rate of emergency department attendance for self-harm was three times higher in the Kimberley than the rest of Western Australia. Both emergency department and police data showed a disproportionately high percentage of incidents involving Aboriginal people, with highest rates in the 15–19 and 20–24 year age groups. Almost 80% of self-harm events recorded by police involving individuals aged 25–50 years involved alcohol. Many self-harm incidents occurred in the evening and at night. CONCLUSIONS: The rates of self-harm across the Kimberley region from 2014–2018 are unacceptably high. Increased funding and alignment of services to meet regional need are required as part of a holistic effort to reduce regional rates of self-harm. SAGE Publications 2021-05-05 2022-02 /pmc/articles/PMC8894678/ /pubmed/33951955 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10398562211010790 Text en © The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Rural and Remote Psychiatry McPhee, Rob Carlin, Emma Seear, Kimberley Carrington-Jones, Phoebe Sheil, Barbara Lawrence, David Dudgeon, Patricia Unacceptably high: an audit of Kimberley self-harm data 2014–2018 |
title | Unacceptably high: an audit of Kimberley self-harm data
2014–2018 |
title_full | Unacceptably high: an audit of Kimberley self-harm data
2014–2018 |
title_fullStr | Unacceptably high: an audit of Kimberley self-harm data
2014–2018 |
title_full_unstemmed | Unacceptably high: an audit of Kimberley self-harm data
2014–2018 |
title_short | Unacceptably high: an audit of Kimberley self-harm data
2014–2018 |
title_sort | unacceptably high: an audit of kimberley self-harm data
2014–2018 |
topic | Rural and Remote Psychiatry |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8894678/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33951955 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10398562211010790 |
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