Psychosocial and pharmacological treatments for deliberate self harm
Cochrane Database of Systematic ReviewsPublished 25 October 1999
Keith KE Hawton, Ellen Townsend, Ella Arensman, David Gunnell, Philip Hazell, Allan House
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There still remains considerable uncertainty about which forms of psychosocial and physical treatments of self-harm patients are most effective, inclusion of insufficient numbers of patients in trials being the main limiting factor.
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There still remains considerable uncertainty about which forms of psychosocial and physical treatments of self-harm patients are most effective, inclusion of insufficient numbers of patients in trials being the main limiting factor. There is a need for larger trials of treatments associated with trends towards reduced rates of repetition of deliberate self-harm. The results of small single trials which have been associated with statistically significant reductions in repetition must be interpreted with caution and it is desirable that such trials are also replicated.
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