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Table 1 Quality assessment of reporting of all self-harm incidents in the Australian asylum seeker population between 1 August 2014 and 31 July 2015, according to WHO self-harm reporting guidelines

From: An evaluation of the quality of self-harm incident reporting across the Australian asylum seeker population according to World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines

Core WHO self-harm (SH) data items

% (n)

(N = 949 unless otherwise specified)

Basic details of the incident

 Unique event number

100%

 Hospital or medical centre number

0 (0%)

 Sex

590 (62.1%)

 State/country

100%

 Date of SH

100%

 Day of week of SH

0 (%)

 Time of SH

100%

 Primary location of SH incident

100%

Methods of self-harm

 Methods of SH

774 (81.5%)

 ICD-10 codes

0 (0%)

 Multiple methods of SH listed

31 (3.3%)

 If intentional self-poisoning (chemicals), name of poison

57/57 (100%)

 Quantity of poison

0 (0%)

 If intentional self-poisoning (medication), name of medication

34/79 (43.0%)

 Quantity of medication

11/79 (13.9%)

 Type of foreign object ingested

27/28 (96.4%)

 Quantity of foreign object

22/28 (78.5%)

Medical severity and response

 Medical severity

64 (6.8%)

 Seen by?

232 (24.4%)

 History of self-harm (previous self-harm)

0 (0%)

 Psychological/psychiatric assessment

34 (4.0%)

 Diagnosis (any diagnosis associated with the person)

0 (0%)

 Taken to hospital

56 (6.0%)

 Ambulance attended

27 (2.8%)

 Medevac

4 (0.4)