Reports of self-harm prevalence in young people in UK community samples vary from 68% (4) to 10% (3) and >10% in girls aged 15 16.
Regarding alcohol-related harm, the prevalence of negative consequences of alcohol use is high in both male and female students in developed countries such as New Zealand and the USA (4, 6).
The small number of studies that have examined suicidal thoughts and plans separately from actual self-harm report prevalences of approximately 11-17% for thoughts of killing oneself, and 9.5% for plans to do so [ 13, 14].
When we spoke, Chaney was cautious on the subject of self-harm and its prevalence in Britain today, but said that it has probably increased in the last two decades.
Suicidal behaviour is a common problem among Norwegian adolescents, and studies on suicidal attempts and self-harm have reported prevalence rates ranging from 3.0 to 8.2percentt [ 24].
The search terms: "self-injury, non-suicidal self-injury, NSSI, deliberate self-harm, DSH, self-harm, self-mutilation, parasuicide, prevalence, rates, adolescent, and adolescence" were used to locate articles.
All told, auditors had completed final reviews on just 14percentt of all files, making it difficult, the GAO said, "to reliably estimate the prevalence of harm".
In the present study, the prevalence of harm is higher compared with other studies.
The GTT aims at measuring the prevalence of harm and changes over time [ 8].
It was calculated by subtracting the prevalence of "harm reduction-oriented" centres from the prevalence of the "rehabilitation-oriented" centres.
