Classification of Attempted Suicide From Hospital Admission Data

Rates, risk factors & methods of self harm among minority ethnic groups in the UK: a systematic review

“…Early studies of South Asian groups in the 1970s would be reporting about a group which was predominantly not born in the UK, whereas currently 50% of the England and Wales South Asian origin population was born in the UK. Early studies, for example those of Burke [ 12 , 32 , 33 ], used the term "West Indian" which is now not commonly used.…”

“…Some studies took care to ascribe ethnic group using self or observer assigned census categories [ 13 , 17 , 27 ], whereas others based it upon place of birth [ 12 , 30 , 32 , 33 ]. Ethnicity was more variously defined in studies using data from medical records and for some studies ethnicity was based on South Asian names [ 16 ], place of birth [ 14 , 15 , 18 ], or country of origin [ 21 , 22 ].…”

“…Two studies reported that South Asian and West Indian men and women had lower rates of self harm when compared with the local general population [ 12 , 32 ]. Burke, in a series of studies, showed that admission rates were lower for attempted suicide in immigrants from Commonwealth countries compared with the local Birmingham population [ 12 , 32 , 33 ]. Nonetheless, there were rate differences by age and gender.…”