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Effects of education on attitudes to deliberate self-harm

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Gill Turnbull  and
Trudie Chalder
Gill Turnbull*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Medicine, The Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospital Trust, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AZ
Trudie Chalder
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, 103 Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AZ
*
∗Correspondence
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Abstract

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Accident and emergency (A&E) staff completed a general knowledge and attitude questionnaire related to suicide and deliberate self-harm (DSH) before and after a teaching package. The results showed an increase in general knowledge while attitudes remained the same. Following the teaching package there was an increase in the number of patients who contacted the Specialist Service for DSH.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 21 , Issue 6 , June 1997 , pp. 334 - 335
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Copyright © 1997 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

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