Donna Gillies, Maria A Christou, Andrew C Dixon, Oliver J Featherston, Iro Rapti, Alicia Garcia-Anguita, Miguel Villasis-Keever, Pratibha Reebye, Evangelos Christou, Nagat Al Kabir, Panagiota A Christou
OBJECTIVE: To provide meta-analytic estimates of self-harm from all community-based studies of adolescents from 1990 through 2015, estimates of suicidal risk, and characteristics including age profile, frequency, types, seeking help, and reasons. METHOD: Databases, bibliographies, and the internet were searched for cross-sectional and cohort studies of 12- to 18-year-olds. Meta-analytic estimates of the prevalence and characteristics of self-harm, risk of suicidal behaviors, and rates comparing different methods were calculated...
October 2018: Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry