Autistic people at higher risk of self-harm, psychiatric illness: study
They matched autistic people based on age and sex at birth to non-autistic people from the general population and looked for Ontario emergency department visits resulting from self-harm. The analysis included data from 379,630 people over 15 years
The study adds to “a considerable body of research showing the incidence of self-injury among autistic people is concerningly high,” said Philippa Hood, an autistic self-advocate and psychology graduate student at Simon Fraser University, in an email.“The real issue facing autistic people who are also suffering psychiatric illness is that there a critical lack of dedicated accessible services,” said Hood, who is also on the board of Autism Canada and was not involved in the study.
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