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Secondary Prevention of Non-fatal Deliberate Self-harm

The Green Card Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

H. G. Morgan ,
E. M. Jones  and
J. H. Owen
H. G. Morgan*
Affiliation:
Department of Mental Health, University of Bristol, 41 St Michaels Hill, Bristol BS2 8DZ
E. M. Jones
Affiliation:
Department of Mental Health, University of Bristol, 41 St Michaels Hill, Bristol BS2 8DZ
J. H. Owen
Affiliation:
Department of Mental Health, University of Bristol, 41 St Michaels Hill, Bristol BS2 8DZ
*
∗Correspondence
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Abstract

In an attempt to address the low compliance with offers of treatment shown by patients after episodes of non-fatal deliberate self-harm (DSH), patients who had harmed themselves for the first time were offered rapid, easy access to on-call trainee psychiatrists in the event of further difficulties, and they were encouraged to seek help at an early stage should such problems arise. The follow-up data obtained after one year showed a significant reduction of actual or seriously threatened DSH in the experimental group, who also made considerably less demands on medical and psychiatric services, when compared with controls.

British Journal of Psychiatry (1993), 163, 111–112

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Brief Reports
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 163 , Issue 1 , July 1993 , pp. 111 - 112
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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Footnotes

1.

A copy of the green card is available, on request, from Professor H. G. Morgan.

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