The Basic Act for Suicide Prevention: Effects on Longitudinal Trend in Deliberate Self-Harm with Reference to National Suicide Data for 1996–2014
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Design
2.2. Setting
2.3. Participants
2.4. Measurements
2.5. Ethical Considerations
2.6. Data Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Patient Characteristics
3.2. Estimation of the Number of Patients Who Engaged in Deliberate Self-Harm
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Acknowledgments
Author Contributions
Conflicts of Interest
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Variable | Mean (SD) or n (%) |
---|---|
Follow up after discharge | |
Decedents, n (%) | 471 (3.6) |
Outpatient care from the hospital, n (%) | 5392 (41.4) |
Outpatient care from another hospital, n (%) | 3730 (28.7) |
Home healthcare, n (%) | 35 (0.3) |
Other situation at home, unspecified, n (%) | 1941 (14.9) |
Admission to another hospital, n (%) | 1030 (7.9) |
Admission to geriatric intermediate care, n (%) | 67 (0.5) |
Admission to residential facility, n (%) | 58 (0.4) |
Other setting, unspecified, n (%) | 290 (2.2) |
Year of discharge | |
1996, n (%) | 1271 (9.8) |
1999, n (%) | 1918 (14.7) |
2002, n (%) | 2043 (15.7) |
2005, n (%) | 2170 (16.7) |
2008, n (%) | 2508 (19.3) |
2011, n (%) | 1562 (12.0) |
2014, n (%) | 1542 (11.8) |
Age, year, mean (standard deviation) † | 43.4 (21.5) |
Sex, male, n (%) | 5495 (42.2) |
Duration of hospitalization, days, mean (standard deviation) ‡ | 15.7 (69.7) |
Location of patient’s residence and hospital § | |
Same municipality, n (%) | 6994 (54.2) |
Different municipality in same region, n (%) | 3344 (25.9) |
Different region in same prefecture (state), n (%) | 1904 (14.8) |
Different prefecture, n (%) | 661 (5.1) |
Receipt of public assistance, n (%) | 1112 (8.5) |
Regional number of psychiatric beds per population, patient residence § | |
<25th percentile, n (%) | 3864 (29.9) |
25–75th percentile, n (%) | 6588 (51.1) |
>75th percentile, n (%) | 2450 (19.0) |
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Nakanishi, M.; Endo, K.; Ando, S. The Basic Act for Suicide Prevention: Effects on Longitudinal Trend in Deliberate Self-Harm with Reference to National Suicide Data for 1996–2014. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2017, 14, 104. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph14010104
Nakanishi M, Endo K, Ando S. The Basic Act for Suicide Prevention: Effects on Longitudinal Trend in Deliberate Self-Harm with Reference to National Suicide Data for 1996–2014. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2017; 14(1):104. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph14010104
Chicago/Turabian StyleNakanishi, Miharu, Kaori Endo, and Shuntaro Ando. 2017. "The Basic Act for Suicide Prevention: Effects on Longitudinal Trend in Deliberate Self-Harm with Reference to National Suicide Data for 1996–2014" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 14, no. 1: 104. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph14010104