Outcomes of emergency self-harm among adolescents in Osaka City
| Gender | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Boy | Girl | Poisoning by drugs | Poisoning by gas | Cutting skin | Jumping from heights | Hanging | Drowning | |||
| (n=425) | (n=88) | (n=337) | p Values | (n=210) | (n=6) | (n=158) | (n=26) | (n=22) | (n=3) | p Values* | |
| Refusal of transport by patients, n (%) | 30 (7.1) | 7 (8.0) | 23 (6.8) | 0.647 | 24 (11.4) | 0 (0.0) | 4 (2.5) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (9.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0.017 |
| Only prehospital treatments, n (%) | 43 (10.1) | 4 (4.5) | 39 (11.6) | 0.072 | 6 (2.9) | 1 (16.7) | 34 (21.5) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (66.7) | <0.001 |
| No hospital admission after transportation, n (%) | 212 (49.9) | 30 (34.1) | 182 (54.0) | 0.001 | 92 (43.8) | 1 (16.7) | 112 (70.9) | 6 (23.1) | 1 (4.5) | 0 (0.0) | <0.001 |
| Hospital admission, n (%) | 119 (28.0) | 34 (38.6) | 85 (25.2) | 0.016 | 88 (41.9) | 2 (33.3) | 8 (5.0) | 15 (57.7) | 6 (27.3) | 0 (0.0) | <0.001 |
| Death, n (%) | 21 (4.9) | 13 (14.8) | 8 (2.4) | <0.001 | 0 (0.0) | 2 (33.3) | 0 (0.0) | 5 (19.2) | 13 (59.1) | 1 (33.3) | <0.001 |
| Death confirmed at the scene | 9 (2.1) | 7 (8.0) | 2 (0.6) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (33.3) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 7 (31.8) | 0 (0.0) | ||
| Death confirmed on hospital admission | 12 (2.8) | 6 (6.8) | 6 (1.8) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 5 (19.2) | 6 (27.3) | 1 (33.3) | ||
*Comparisons between the six groups (type of self-harm) were evaluated with Fisher's exact test.