Premature death among primary care patients with a history of self-harm
| Autor: | Yvonne Awenat, Matthew J. Carr, Evangelos Kontopantelis, David While, Roger T. Webb, Carolyn Chew-Graham, Nav Kapur, Darren M. Ashcroft, Jayne Cooper |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Male Time Factors Adolescent Collaborative Care Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Risk Factors Cause of Death Humans Medicine Cumulative incidence Longitudinal Studies 030212 general & internal medicine Proportional Hazards Models Original Research Cause of death First episode Primary Health Care Mortality Premature business.industry Incidence Incidence (epidemiology) Hazard ratio Middle Aged R1 United Kingdom 030227 psychiatry Suicide Case-Control Studies Relative risk Cohort Female Family Practice business Self-Injurious Behavior Demography |
| Zdroj: | Carr, M, Ashcroft, D, Kontopantelis, E, While, D, Awenat, Y, Cooper, J, Chew-Graham, C, Kapur, N & Webb, R 2017, ' Premature death among primary care patients with a history of self-harm ', Annals of Family Medicine, vol. 15, pp. 246-254 . https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.2054 |
| ISSN: | 1544-1717 |
| Popis: | PURPOSE Self-harm is a public health problem that requires a better understanding of mortality risk. We undertook a study to examine premature mortality in a nationally representative cohort of primary care patients who had harmed themselves.\ud \ud METHODS During 2001–2013, a total of 385 general practices in England contributed data to the Clinical Practice Research Datalink with linkage to Office for National Statistics mortality records. We identified 30,017 persons aged 15 to 64 years with a recorded episode of self-harm. We estimated the relative risks of all-cause and cause-specific natural and unnatural mortality using a comparison cohort of 600,258 individuals matched on age, sex, and general practice.\ud \ud RESULTS We found an elevated risk of dying prematurely from any cause among the self-harm cohort, especially in the first year of follow-up (adjusted hazard ratio for that year, 3.6; 95% CI, 3.1–4.2). In particular, suicide risk was especially high during the first year (adjusted hazard ratio, 54.4; 95% CI, 34.3–86.3); although it declined sharply, it remained much higher than that in the comparison cohort. Large elevations of risk throughout the follow-up period were also observed for accidental, alcohol-related, and drug poisoning deaths. At 10 years of follow-up, cumulative incidence values were 6.5% (95% CI, 6.0%–7.1%) for all-cause mortality and 1.3% (95% CI, 1.2%–1.5%) for suicide.\ud \ud CONCLUSIONS Primary care patients who have harmed themselves are at greatly increased risk of dying prematurely by natural and unnatural causes, and especially within a year of a first episode. These individuals visit clinicians at a relatively high frequency, which presents a clear opportunity for preventive action. Primary care patients with myriad comorbidities, including self-harming behavior, mental disorder, addictions, and physical illnesses, will require concerted, multipronged, multidisciplinary collaborative care approaches. |
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