Mental Health topics
Calls to extend self-harm intervention to primary school children
Three per cent of more than a thousand Melbourne children reported self-harm at age 11 and 12. They had been assessed annually from the age of eight to nine (wave 1) to 11 to 12 years (wave four) . Of those who self-harmed, 64.3% were females and 35.7% were males.
PTSD suicide rates uncovered, and women are most at risk
Women with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are nearly seven times more likely than other women to die by suicide, research has found.
Covid-19 threatens perinatal mental health
More than one in three (36.4%) pregnant women and those who had recently given birth reported clinically significant levels of depression between May and August this year.
