Suicide and deliberate self-harm in Oxford University students over a 30-year period

Journal article

Purpose To determine whether rates of suicide and self- harm in university students differ from those in other young people. Methods We obtained information on Oxford University students who died by suicide or presented to hospital following deliberate self-harm (DSH) between 1976 and 2006 from official records and a General Hospital monitoring system in Oxford. Rates of suicide and self-harm in the students and in other young people in the general population were calculated from university, ...

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Authors: Hawton, K; Bergen, H; Mahadevan, S; Casey, D; Simkin, S

• Journal: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
• Volume: 47
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 43-51
• Publication date: 2012-01-01
• DOI: 10.1007/s00127-010-0310-3
• ISSN: 0933-7954
• Language: English
• Keywords: Suicide; Students; Deliberate self-harm