L Mellesdal1, R A Kroken2, O Lutro3, T Wentzel-Larsen4, E Kjelby2, K J Oedegaard5, H A Jørgensen6, L Mehlum7. 1. Division of Psychiatry, Haukeland University Hospital, Norway. Electronic address: liv.mellesdal@helse-bergen.no. 2. Division of Psychiatry, Haukeland University Hospital, Norway. 3. Department of Medicine, Haukeland University Hospital, Norway. 4. Centre for Clinical Research, Haukeland University Hospital, Norway; Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies, Norway; Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Eastern and Southern Norway, Norway. 5. Division of Psychiatry, Haukeland University Hospital, Norway; Department of Clinical Medicine, Section of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Bergen, Norway. 6. Department of Clinical Medicine, Section of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Bergen, Norway. 7. National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Few studies have examined rate and predictors of self-harm in discharged psychiatric patients. AIMS: To investigate the rate, coding, timing, predictors and characteristics of self-harm induced somatic admission after discharge from psychiatric acute admission. METHOD: Cohort study of 2827 unselected patients consecutively admitted to a psychiatric acute ward during three years. Mean observation period was 2.3 years. Combined register linkage and manual data examination. Cox regression was used to investigate covariates for time to somatic admission due to self-harm, with covariates changing during follow-up entered time dependently. RESULTS: During the observation period, 10.5% of the patients had 792 somatic self-harm admissions. Strongest risk factors were psychiatric admission due to non-suicidal self-harm, suicide attempt and suicide ideation. The risk was increased throughout the first year of follow-up, during readmission, with increasing outpatient consultations and in patients diagnosed with recurrent depression, personality disorders, substance use disorders and anxiety/stress-related disorders. Only 49% of the somatic self-harm admissions were given hospital self-harm diagnosis. CONCLUSIONS: Self-harm induced somatic admissions were highly prevalent during the first year after discharge from acute psychiatric admission. Underdiagnosing of self-harm in relation to somatic self-harm admissions may cause incorrect follow-up treatments and unreliable register data.
BACKGROUND: Few studies have examined rate and predictors of self-harm in discharged psychiatricpatients. AIMS: To investigate the rate, coding, timing, predictors and characteristics of self-harm induced somatic admission after discharge from psychiatric acute admission. METHOD: Cohort study of 2827 unselected patients consecutively admitted to a psychiatric acute ward during three years. Mean observation period was 2.3 years. Combined register linkage and manual data examination. Cox regression was used to investigate covariates for time to somatic admission due to self-harm, with covariates changing during follow-up entered time dependently. RESULTS: During the observation period, 10.5% of the patients had 792 somatic self-harm admissions. Strongest risk factors were psychiatric admission due to non-suicidal self-harm, suicide attempt and suicide ideation. The risk was increased throughout the first year of follow-up, during readmission, with increasing outpatient consultations and in patients diagnosed with recurrent depression, personality disorders, substance use disorders and anxiety/stress-related disorders. Only 49% of the somatic self-harm admissions were given hospital self-harm diagnosis. CONCLUSIONS: Self-harm induced somatic admissions were highly prevalent during the first year after discharge from acute psychiatric admission. Underdiagnosing of self-harm in relation to somatic self-harm admissions may cause incorrect follow-up treatments and unreliable register data.
Authors: Florian Walter; Matthew J Carr; Pearl L H Mok; Sussie Antonsen; Carsten B Pedersen; Louis Appleby; Seena Fazel; Jenny Shaw; Roger T Webb Journal: Lancet Psychiatry Date: 2019-06-03 Impact factor: 77.056
Authors: Hallvard Lund-Heimark; Eirik Kjelby; Lars Mehlum; Rolf Gjestad; Geir Selbæk; Rune Andreas Kroken; Erik Johnsen; Ketil Joachim Oedegaard; Liv S Mellesdal Journal: BJPsych Open Date: 2020-06-18