The implementation and first insights of the French-speaking Swiss programme for monitoring self-harm
| Autor: | Stéphane Saillant, Philippe Golay, Laurent Michaud, Sebastien Brovelli, Alessandra Costanza, Yves Dorogi, Solenn Lorillard, Anne Edan, Rémy P. Barbe, Marta Bertran, Karine Wyss, Bénédicte Van der Vaeren, Riaz Khan, Louise Ostertag, Ioan Cromec, Francesca Assandri |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Suicide Attempted Suicide prevention ddc:616.89 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult Switzerland/epidemiology 0302 clinical medicine Age Distribution Risk Factors Epidemiology medicine Self-Injurious Behavior/epidemiology Humans Emergency Service Hospital Female Middle Aged Socioeconomic Factors Suicide Attempted/psychology Suicide Attempted/statistics & numerical data 030212 general & internal medicine Young adult Risk factor Socioeconomic status Suicide attempt business.industry Public health General Medicine Exact test business Self-Injurious Behavior 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Switzerland Demography |
| Zdroj: | Swiss medical weekly, vol. 149, pp. w20016 Swiss Medical Weekly, Vol. 149 (2019) P. w20016 |
| ISSN: | 1424-3997 1424-7860 |
| Popis: | Self-harm is a major risk factor for suicide but remains poorly documented. No data on self-harm in French-speaking Switzerland exist. To address this deficiency, the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health commissioned a specific self-harm monitoring programme. We present and discuss its implementation and first findings. Every patient aged 18–65 years presenting for self-harm to the emergency departments of the Lausanne and Neuchâtel general hospitals were included in the monitoring programme over a 10-month period (December 2016 to September 2017). Clinicians collected anonymous sociodemographic and clinical data. The sample included 490 patients (54.9% female and 45.1% male) for 554 episodes of self-harm, showing a higher proportion of patients aged 18–34 (49.2%) than older age groups (35–49, 33.7% and 50–65, 17.1%). Patients were mostly single (56.1%) and in problematic socioeconomic situations (65.7%). Self-poisoning was the most commonly used method (58.2%) and was preferred by women (71% of females and 42.5% of males, Fisher’s exact test, p |
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