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10066338

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PredicateObject
rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1999-4-30
pubmed:abstractText
It is widely recognized that official suicide rates conceal the real scale of non-accidental self-injurious fatal behaviour, including among children and young people. There are many reasons for this including the constraints of registration policy and practice, uncertainty about the circumstances surrounding a death, an unwillingness-often for the family's sake-to affix a suicide label on a child, and perhaps the belief that the term "suicide" is not quite accurate. The present study examined all records over a 17-year period from an inner London coroner's office in order to make some quantitative assessment of the extent to which non-accidental self-injurious deaths might be underestimated by suicide returns among those under 20 years. It is suggested on the basis of this examination that the real rate of what might be termed "suicide" among this group may be up to three times the official recorded level. This finding received general confirmation from a smaller-scale comparison in an out of London location.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0140-1971
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright 1999 The Association for Professionals in Services for Adolescents.
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
22
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
145-55
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1999
pubmed:articleTitle
Suicide among the young--the size of the problem.
pubmed:affiliation
National Children's Bureau, London, UK.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't