Deliberate self-poisoning in Asian and Caucasian 12-15-year-olds.
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.
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Department of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Walsgrave Hospital, Coventry.
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Handy
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Mohan
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Silveira
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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