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Study reveals trend reversal as more men than women inflict self-harm

More men than women inflict repeated, deliberate self-harm on themselves in a reversal of previous trends in such behaviour, research has revealed.

Dr Ella Arensman of the National Suicide Research Foundation said the research underlined the need to examine how effective treatment programmes are for men who repeatedly self-harm.

Dr Arensman was lead researcher in the study of deliberate self-harm in eight European regions, including Cork and Limerick, that will be presented today at a conference in Glasgow.

Researchers from the Network for International Collaboration on Evidence in Suicide Prevention collected data on more than 44,000 cases of self-harm in eight European regions between 1989 and 2003.

Dr Arensman said the gender pattern in relation to repeated self-harm had changed since the previous two decades when the rates were similar for men and women across Europe.

“I believe it is crucial that we look at how effective treatment programmes are for men because most studies up to now only involve women,” she said.

By Evelyn Ring Irish Examiner

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