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Commentary: Self‐harm: a global health priority – reflections on Brunner et al. (2014)
Author(s) -
Ougrin Dennis
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/jcpp.12232
Subject(s) - psychosocial , psychology , harm , epidemiology , psychiatry , suicide prevention , poison control , injury prevention , clinical psychology , medicine , medical emergency , social psychology
The accompanying cross‐sectional study by Brunner et al. (2014) investigates the prevalence and correlates of self‐injury in adolescents. It is one of the largest epidemiological studies of its kind published to date. Self‐injury by cutting is a strong independent predictor of suicide (Hawton et al., 2012), therefore, understanding the prevalence and psychosocial correlates of this behaviour is of great importance.