Home > Non-fatal self-harm in Ireland - Findings from the National Registry of Deliberate Self-Harm, annual report 2012.

Griffin, Eve and Arensman, Ella and Wall, A and Corcoran, Paul and Perry, Ivan J (2014) Non-fatal self-harm in Ireland - Findings from the National Registry of Deliberate Self-Harm, annual report 2012. NIHS Research Bulletin, 7, (1), p. 29.

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The eleventh annual report from the National Registry of Deliberate Self-Harm is based on data collected on persons presenting to all 35 hospital emergency departments as a result of self-harm in 2012 in the Republic of Ireland. In 2012, the Registry recorded 12,010 presentations to hospital due to deliberate self-harm nationally, involving 9,483 individuals.

Taking the population into account, the age-standardised rate of individuals presenting to hospital following deliberate self-harm in 2012 was 211 per 100,000, a 2% decrease on the rate in 2011. However, the rate in 2012 was still 12% higher than that in 2007. In 2012, the national male rate of deliberate self-harm was 195 per 100,000, and the female rate of deliberate self-harm in 2012 was 228 per 100,000. Despite the overall decrease in 2012, the male rate has increased by 20% since 2007 and the female rate has increased by 6% over the same period


Item Type
Article
Publication Type
Irish-related, Open Access, Article
Drug Type
All substances
Intervention Type
Harm reduction
Date
January 2014
Page Range
p. 29
Publisher
National Institute of Health Sciences
Volume
7
Number
1
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