Postcards from the EDge project: randomised controlled trial of an intervention using postcards to reduce repetition of hospital treated deliberate self poisoning

Gregory Leigh Carter · Kerrie Ann Clover · Ian M. Whyte · Andrew Hamilton Dawson · Catherine Anne D’Este

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Suicide and Self-Harm Studies Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes Poisoning and overdose treatments

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OBJECTIVE: To determine whether an intervention using postcards (postcards from the EDge project) reduces repetitions of hospital treated deliberate self poisoning. DESIGN: Randomised controlled trial. SETTING: Regional referral service for general hospital treated deliberate self poisoning in Newcastle, Australia. PARTICIPANTS: 772 patients aged over 16 years with deliberate self poisoning. INTERVENTION: Non-obligatory intervention using eight postcards over 12 months along with standard treatment compared with standard treatment alone. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Proportion of patients with one or more repeat episodes of deliberate self poisoning and the number of repeat episodes for deliberate self poisoning per person in 12 months. RESULTS: The proportion of repeaters with deliberate self poisoning in the intervention group did not differ significantly from that in the control group (57/378, 15.1%, 95% confidence interval 11.5% to 18.7% v 68/394, 17.3%, 13.5% to 21.0%: difference between groups -2%, -7% to 3%). In unadjusted analysis the number of repetitions were significantly reduced (incidence risk ratio 0.55, 0.35 to 0.87). CONCLUSION: A postcard intervention reduced repetitions of deliberate self poisoning, although it did not significantly reduce the proportion of individual repeaters.

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