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This study looked at some unsettling patterns in mental health/illness in England. Mental health problems are a potential consequence of ACEs.
The number of deaths by suicide among mental health patients treated at home by crisis resolution home treatment teams (CRHT), has more than doubled in England in recent years, rising from an average of 80 in 2003-2004 to 163 in 2010-2011, according to new research published in The Lancet Psychiatry. In contrast, suicides on psychiatric wards fell by more than half, from 163 in 2003-2004 to 76 in 2010-2011.
The research also reveals that despite an 18% fall in the suicide rate among people receiving community care by CRHT teams between 2003 and 2011, the overall suicide rate among patients cared for at home remains higher than the overall psychiatric inpatient suicide rate (14.6 per 10,000 episodes under home care vs 8.8 per 10,000 hospital admissions).
"Our findings suggest that crisis resolution home treatment settings are associated with a high suicide risk," explains study leader Dr Isabelle Hunt from The University of Manchester, UK. "CRHT has been used increasingly during the period we have studied and the number of patients dying by suicide is growing. The rate is consistently higher compared with psychiatric inpatients, suggesting that inpatient care might reduce suicide risk more effectively than crisis resolution home treatment."
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140617210342.htm
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