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Deliberate Self-harm: How Do Patients View Their Treatment?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

D. Pierce
D. Pierce*
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East Glamorgan Hospital, Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan
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The opinions of patients who had caused deliberate self-harm about the attitudes of doctors, nurses, families and others towards their acts were studied. Their views of the attitudes of hospital staff were found to be markedly different from attitudes reported elsewhere by staff themselves. There were no differences between the patients' views of their handling by nurses, families, and others towards their acts were studied. Their views of the attitudes of families were unsympathetic. A significant association was found between repetition of an act of deliberate self-harm and the perception of an unsympathetic attitude within the family.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 149 , Issue 5 , November 1986 , pp. 624 - 626
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Copyright © 1986 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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