Hospitalisations for intentional self-harm, by age, sex and mechanism, Australia, 2008–09 to 2018–19.
The line graph shows the age-specific rates of intentional self-harm hospitalisations for persons of all ages from 2008–09 to 2018–19 by method of self-harm. Users can also choose to view age-specific rate, numbers and proportion of hospitalisations for intentional self-harm by sex for each age group. From 2008–09 to 2018–19, the highest rates of intentional self-harm hospitalisations by method were for self-poisoning by drugs in the anti-epileptic, sedative-hypnotic, anti-parkinsonism and psychotropic drugs category, which for all years except 2016–17, were more than twice the rates of the second highest category, non-opioid analgesics, antipyretics and anti-rheumatics. The third highest rates during the 10-year period were for self-injury with sharp object.