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From The Times
August 23, 2006

Self-harm estimates are too low

By Hannah Devlin
More than one in ten teenage girls harm themselves — far more than previously estimated, a study suggests.

The research was conducted among more than 6,000 pupils aged 15 and 16 in schools in Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire and Birmingham. It found that, while boys were more likely to commit suicide, girls were four times more likely to self-harm, with 11 per cent of girls and 3 per cent of boys claiming to have deliberately harmed themselves in the past year. Previously, estimates of the frequency of self-harm among teenagers have been based on the number who attend hospitals.

“Until now, most studies of deliberate self-harm in adolescents in the UK have been based on the cases that reach hospital,” said Karen Rodham, from the department of psychology at the University of Bath. “We have found that the true extent of self-harm is significantly wider than that.”

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