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Suicide Prevention and Self Harm

December Bulletin

The latest Suicide Prevention and Self Harm bulletin from Mersey Care Evidence and Library Service can now be viewed at https://www.evidentlybetter.org/bulletins/suicide-prevention/

This webpage features key links and emerging reports about suicide prevention.

In this issue:      

  • Domestic violence and suicide in women: insights from a national UK study
  • Predictors of suicidal ideation in UK doctors: retrospective case–control study from NHS Practitioner Health
  • Characterisation of a university student sample with a lifetime history of non-suicidal self-injury: mixed-methods analysis of stress factors, coping mechanisms and reasons for self-injury
  • New BSI standard for suicide and the workplace
  • Why online safety is core to suicide prevention
  • Plus much more

Increased risk of domestic violence during and after pregnancy for people with schizophrenia, study finds

Pregnant and postpartum patients with schizophrenia are three times more likely to experience interpersonal (domestic) violence, compared with those without schizophrenia, a study carried out by the Women’s College Hospital in Toronto has found.

In a population-based cohort study of almost two million participants, 3.1 per cent of patients with schizophrenia had an emergency department visit for interpersonal violence during pregnancy or the first postpartum year, compared with 0.4 per cent of those without schizophrenia.

State of health visiting in England

Institute of Health Visiting (iHV)

Source: LTHTR Library Newsletter – External Health Management

The iHV’s seventh annual survey (completed by 1012 health visitors from across the UK during October and November 2020) finds that health visitors are concerned that the needs of vulnerable babies and young children are invisible as they are only able to focus on what feels like the “tip of a very large iceberg” of unmet need, with almost two-thirds of health visitors reporting an increase in cases of child neglect. Four out of five health visitors report soaring increases in domestic violence and abuse, perinatal mental illness, and the negative impact of poverty on families.

To read the full report click here, or to find out more information click here.