Self‐injurious behaviour in people with mental handicap: a total population study
- 28 June 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Intellectual Disability Research
- Vol. 31 (2) , 147-162
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2788.1987.tb01351.x
Abstract
A survey of self-injurious behaviour in people receiving services for mental handicap was carried out in one health region. Six hundred and sixteen adults and children were found to have engaged in self-injurious behaviour sufficient to have caused tissue damage in the previous 4 months and 596 of these were screened. Half were resident in hospital while 28% were in non-hospital residential care and the remainder (21%) were living at home. Nearly one-fifth (19%) showed self-injurious behaviour, of one or more types, at a rate of at least once per hour and a further 13% wore protective or restraining devices for all or part of the day or night. Only 2% were enrolled on formal psychological treatment programmes but nearly half were receiving psychotropic drugs (excluding anticonvulsants).This publication has 18 references indexed in Scilit:
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