Person—self-harm ideation in the last 12 months, prisoner health yes/no/unknown code N

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Element
Short name:	Self-harm ideation in the last 12 months
METEOR identifier:	627152
Registration status:	Health, Standard 28/04/2016
Definition:	An indicator of whether a person has had thoughts, in the last 12 months, of inflicting harm upon themselves, as represented by a code.
Data Element Concept:	Person—self-harm ideation in the last 12 months

Value domain attributes

Representation class:

Code

Data type:

Number

Format:

Maximum character length:

Permissible values:

Value	Meaning
1	Yes
2	No

Supplementary values:

Value	Meaning
9	Unknown

Guide for use:

For use in Prisoner health data collections. If this value domain is used with other metadata then 'Unknown' would map to code 8.

Submitting organisation:

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Guide for use:

All thoughts of self-harm should be included, regardless of whether or not they were related to instances of actual self-harming behaviour.

Submitting organisation:

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Related metadata references:

Implementation in Data Set Specifications:

DSS specific attributes +
*DSS specific information:* This data element is included in the Prisoner health NBEDS as the National Prisoner Health Indicators include the indicator: Proportion of prison entrants who have thought of harming themselves in the last 12 months.