{"id":2357,"date":"2017-03-28T14:22:34","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T04:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/?p=2357"},"modified":"2017-03-28T15:18:33","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T05:18:33","slug":"high-rates-of-self-harm-but-low-rates-of-mental-health-assessment-following-release-from-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/2017\/03\/28\/high-rates-of-self-harm-but-low-rates-of-mental-health-assessment-following-release-from-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"High rates of self-harm \u2013 but low rates of mental health assessment \u2013 following release from prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Led by Dr. Rohan Borschmann, this research is the first published evidence worldwide documenting the elevated incidence of ambulance attendances resulting from self-harm in a sample of adults following release from prison. It was published this month in the <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1177\/0004867416640090?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&amp;rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&amp;rfr_dat=cr_pub%3dpubmed\">Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry<\/a>. Researchers interviewed 1325 adults immediately prior to being released from prison, and used linked administrative data to follow them up after their release. The study was led by Professor Stuart Kinner from the Centre for Adolescent Health, and the findings featured in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2017\/mar\/12\/prison-study-reveals-high-rate-of-self-harm-among-former-inmates-and-mental-health-failures\">article<\/a> in the Guardian this month. \u201cPeople who end up in prison have typically have very complicated lives, and the presence of multiple problems \u2013 such as mental health problems, substance use problems, and educational disengagement \u2013 is normative\u201d, explains Dr. Borschmann. \u201cWe found that people who had been released from prison were presenting to the emergency department following self-harm at a rate ten times higher than the general population.\u201d Amongst those presenting, he says, there was an over-representation of women, Indigenous people, and those with a history of mental disorder. \u201cThis highlights the need for a coordinated treatment plan starting prior to prison release and spanning the reintegration period.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First published evidence worldwide led by Dr Rohan Borschmann<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,5270],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-research"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2360,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357\/revisions\/2360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}