@article{discovery10133652,
           pages = {437--439},
         journal = {The British Journal of Psychiatry},
           month = {August},
       publisher = {CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS},
            note = {This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.},
           title = {Psychological distress, self-harm and attempted suicide in UK 17-year olds: prevalence and sociodemographic inequalities},
          number = {2},
          volume = {219},
            year = {2021},
          author = {Patalay, P and Fitzsimons, E},
             url = {https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2020.258},
        abstract = {In a large (n = 10 103), nationally representative sample of 17-year-olds 16.1\% had experienced high psychological distress in the past 30 days, 24.1\% had self-harmed in the previous 12 months and 7.4\% had ever attempted suicide. Females, White adolescents, sexual minorities and those from more socioeconomically disadvantaged families had worse mental health outcomes; with the exceptions of no detected differences in attempted suicide by ethnicity and in self-harm by socioeconomic position. Findings include a narrower gender gap in self-harm at age 17 (males 20.1\%, females 28.2\%) compared with at age 14 (males 8.5\%; females 22.8\%) and 2-4 times higher prevalence in sexual minority adolescents (39.3\% high distress, 55.8\% self-harmed, 21.7\% attempted suicide compared with 13.4\%, 20.5\% and 5.8\%, respectively, in heterosexual adolescents).},
        keywords = {Suicide, self-harm, epidemiology, social deprivation, adolescent}
}