Deliberate self harm in children

Krishnakumar, P; Geeta, M. G.; Riyaz, A

doi:10.1007/s13312-011-0084-z

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“…Slightly more than one-fifth of the patients had diagnosable psychiatric illness in the present study, this is less that the reported range of 30-52% in previous studies from India[1217] which have studies children and adolescents presenting with attempted suicide or deliberate self-harm. In the present study, about one-tenth of patients had family history of alcohol dependence, which has been identified as a risk factor for self-harm in adolescents.…”

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Intentional Self-harm in Children and Adolescents: A Study from Psychiatry Consultation Liaison Services of a Tertiary Care Hospital

Grover

Sarkar

Chakrabarti

et al. 2015

Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine

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Objective:The objective of this study was to evaluate the socio-demographic and the clinical profile of children and adolescents presenting with Intentional self-harm.Materials and Methods:Records of all children and adolescents (≤19 years) seen by the consultation liaison (CL) services during the period of 2000-2012 were screened. Patients with a diagnosis of intentional self-harm (at the time of assessment) were taken up for this study. Data was extracted from the records, to study the socio-demographic and clinical profile.Results:During the study period, 101 patients aged ≤19 years and diagnosed with intentional self-harm at the time of admission were evaluated by the psychiatry CL services in various emergency and medical surgical wards. In the study population, females (N = 61; 60.4%) outnumbered males. The age of the patients ranged from 12 to 19 with a median and mean of 17.0 years (standard deviation-1.6 years; interquartile range 16-18 years). Children and adolescent with self harm were more commonly females, from nuclear families, middle socio-economic status and Hindu by religion. The common method of self-harm in adolescents is by ingestion of insecticides (65%) and the self-harm behavior was often precipitated by interpersonal problems in the family context. About one-fifth of the patients have psychiatric morbidity.Conclusion:Findings suggest that the most common method of intentional self-harm in children and adolescents is consumption of insecticides and precipitated by interpersonal problems in the family context.

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“…[12161920] This suggests that there is a need to expand the literature on this topic. Accordingly, the aim of this retrospective chart review was to study the socio-demographic and clinical profile of children and adolescents presenting with intentional self-harm and referred to psychiatry consultation liaison (CL) services for evaluation.…”

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Intentional Self-harm in Children and Adolescents: A Study from Psychiatry Consultation Liaison Services of a Tertiary Care Hospital

Grover

Sarkar

Chakrabarti

et al. 2015

Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine

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“…[2] In many studies of deliberate self-harm, academic pressure was found to be associated with suicidal ideas and occurrence of deliberate self-harm. [2][3][4] Suicide is considered to be the second most common cause of death in adolescents in industrialized countries, and high rates are reported from India as well. [5,6] The present study was planned to determine levels of stress in school students, their psychological health, and prevalence of suicidal ideas among them and any correlation between these variables.…”

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Stress and suicidal ideas in adolescent students in Chandigarh

Arun

Chavan

2009

Indian J Med Sci

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“…Poisoning in older children and adolescents is more often intentional, especially due to increasing stress. 15,16 The most common cause of acute medical illness in many countries has been exposure to toxic substances. 9,[17][18][19][20] General epidemiological data should be used to assist emergency department on proper management of poisoning cases especially for effective preventive and therapeutic approaches.…”

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A study on profile of poisoning in pediatric population

Devaranavadagi

Patel

Shankar

2017

Int J Contemp Pediatr

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Background: Children are curious and explore their world with all their senses. As a result, surroundings can be a dangerous place when poisonous substances are inadvertently ingested - every year millions of calls are made to poison control centres when this happens and thousands of children are admitted to emergency departments. Poisoning patterns change according to age group, the nature and dose of the poison, type of exposure. This study is aimed at understanding the incidence, aetiology and manner of poisoning, outcome among children less than 18 years admitted to Paediatric department KIMS.Methods: Prospectively, 38 poisoning cases admitted to Paediatric intensive care, KIMS Bangalore from August 2015 to July 2016 were included in this study. The age and sex of the patient, poisoning agent, manner of poisoning, duration of hospital stay and outcome of all the patients were recorded and analysed.Results: Out of 38, 16 (42%) are males, 22 (58%) are females. 13 (34%) cases are <5years of age, 2(5%) cases are between 5-10 year, 23 (61%) cases are above 10 years. Among all, 13 (34%) cases of drugs consumption, among these 11 cases were above 10 years representing purposeful consumption. 5 (13%) cases of kerosene consumption. Out 4 (11%) cases of Organophosphorous poison, 3 cases are above 10 years representing purposeful consumption. 4 (10%) cases of acid consumption. 4 (11%) cases of aluminium phosphide poisoning. 3 (8%) cases of Good night oil consumption. 2 (5%)cases of eucalyptus oil consumption. 3(8%) cases of camphor poisoning. 2 (5%) cases died due to aluminium phosphide poisoning. Duration of hospital stay varied from 1 day to 6 days. Conclusions: Accidental poisoning is common in children below 5 years of age. Suicidal poison incidence is increasing among teenagers either due to exam stress or peer pressure. Accidental poisoning can be reduced by simple measures like parental education, replacing the poisoning agent with one of lower toxicity, legislation regarding the child resistant packaging of necessary poisons.

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Deliberate self harm in children

Abstract: Deliberate self harm occurs in young children and the risk factors are comparable to those in adolescents.

Cited by 24 publications

References 19 publications

Intentional Self-harm in Children and Adolescents: A Study from Psychiatry Consultation Liaison Services of a Tertiary Care Hospital

Intentional Self-harm in Children and Adolescents: A Study from Psychiatry Consultation Liaison Services of a Tertiary Care Hospital

Stress and suicidal ideas in adolescent students in Chandigarh

A study on profile of poisoning in pediatric population

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