Changing Ethnic and Social Characteristics of Patients Admitted for Self-Poisoning in West London during 1971/2 and 1983/4
| Autor: | S P Lockhart, J H Baron |
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| Rok vydání: | 1987 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Pediatrics Asia West Indies Population Ethnic group Poison control Suicide Attempted Suicide prevention Occupational safety and health 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine London Epidemiology Injury prevention medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine education Aged education.field_of_study business.industry Poisoning Incidence (epidemiology) General Medicine Middle Aged 030227 psychiatry Social Class Female business Research Article |
| Zdroj: | Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 80:145-148 |
| ISSN: | 1758-1095 0141-0768 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/014107688708000306 |
| Popis: | The characteristics of adult patients admitted for self-poisoning to an inner London district general hospital were examined during 1971/72 and 1983/84. The incidence of self-poisoning halved over the 12 years, from 326 to 178 per 100 000. Although no West Indians were admitted in the first period, they comprised 7% of such admissions 12 years later. The West Indian population in the catchment area remained constant at around 6%. Amongst all patients admitted for self-poisoning, there was a fall in the number of patients diagnosed as depressed, having a personality disorder or admitting to prior psychiatric care, but an increase in alcoholism. Paracetamol became more common as a drug used in self-poisoning and barbiturates were taken less often. Only one patient died in the series. These results should stimulate more soundly based epidemiological studies on ethnic variation in self-poisoning, and on self-injury in inner-city areas. |
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