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Deliberate self-poisoning in Asian and Caucasian 12-15-year-olds
L McGibben1, C G Ballard, S Handy
1Department of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Walsgrave Hospital, Coventry.
Abstract:
The mean annual rates of hospital admission for deliberate self-poisoning were calculated for Caucasian and Asian 12-15-year-olds between 1982 and 1990 as 2.31 and 2.47 per 1000 respectively. There was an excess of girls in each group.