Self-harm in young people with perinatal HIV and HIV negative young people in England: cross sectional analysis

BMC Public Health

Table 2 Prevalence of self-harm thoughts and actions by presence of suicidal intent

Variable	Total (n = 56)	Self-harm without suicidal intent (n = 30)	Self harm with suicidal intent (n = 26)	P value
Variable	n (%)			P value
Thoughts
Ever felt life was not worth living?	47 (83.9)	21 (70.0)	26 (100.0)	0.002
Ever wished you were dead and away from it all?^a	41 (87.2)	16 (76.2)	25 (96.2)	0.041
Actions
Repeated self-harm^b	16 (64.0)	4 (44.4)	12 (75.0)	0.127
Swallowed pills/ poisonous substance at last self-harm	20 (35.7)	9 (30.0)	11 (42.3)	0.338
Cutting at last self-harm	35 (62.5)	20 (66.7)	15 (57.7)	0.489
Presented to hospital after last self-harm	8 (14.3)	2 (6.7)	6 (23.1)	0.166

^aunknown for 9 self-harm without suicidal intent; ^b > 1 episode, of those who had self-harmed in the preceding 12 months (N = 25 overall, N = 9 and 16 without or with suicidal intent respectively)

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