Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-jn8rn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-25T16:41:12.323Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Costs of physical health care for self-injuring patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Mark Swinton  and
Sarah Smith
Mark Swinton*
Affiliation:
Liverpool University
Sarah Smith
Affiliation:
Ashworth Hospital, Liverpool
*
∗Correspondence
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

Self-injury is a major clinical problem on the women's wards at Ashworth Hospital. Ashworth Hospital is one of three special hospitals within England and Wales that provides assessment, treatment and rehabilitation for those legally detained patients under the Mental Health Act (1983) who suffer from a mental disorder and require conditions of special security because of their dangerousness. There is extensive literature on the psychological aspects of serf-injury. However, since patients with self-injury present with damage to the body, it is surprising that there is little information on the physical health care and associated resource costs of this behaviour.

Type
Original Papers
Information
Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 21 , Issue 9 , September 1997 , pp. 538 - 541
Creative Commons
Creative Common License - CCCreative Common License - BY
This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Copyright
Copyright © 1997 The Royal College of Psychiatrists
Submit a response

eLetters

No eLetters have been published for this article.