title: Deliberate self-poisoning in Asian and Caucasian 12-15-year-olds.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Walsgrave Hospital, Coventry.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: McGibben
authors.forename: C G
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Ballard
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Handy
authors.forename: R N
authors.initials: RN
authors.lastname: Mohan
authors.forename: W R
authors.initials: WR
authors.lastname: Silveira
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001208:Asia / Q000208:ethnology; D002648:Child; D004739:England / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D011041:Poisoning / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D016728:Self-Injurious Behavior / Q000208:ethnology*; D044465:White People