Unacceptably high: an audit of Kimberley self-harm data 2014–2018

• Published in: Australasian psychiatry : bulletin of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists Vol. 30; no. 1; pp. 70 - 73
• Main Authors: McPhee, Rob, Carlin, Emma, Seear, Kimberley, Carrington-Jones, Phoebe, Sheil, Barbara, Lawrence, David, Dudgeon, Patricia
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.02.2022
• Subjects: Adult; Cross-Sectional Studies; Humans; Middle Aged; Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander; Retrospective Studies; Self-Injurious Behavior - epidemiology; Western Australia - epidemiology; Western Australia; self-injury; Aboriginal Australian; health data monitoring; mental health

Objective: To explore the rates and characteristics of self-harm across the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Method: Retrospective, cross-sectional audit. We obtained and descriptively analysed routinely collected self-harm data from the Kimberley District of the Western Australia Police Force...