Dr David Kingsley, consultant adolescent psychiatrist at Cheadle Royal Hospital, told a self-harm conference last week that a survey by private health firm Affinity Healthcare found 41 per cent of Asian young people deliberately hurt themselves. In comparison the survey found in all other ethnic groups 22 per cent of young people said they self-harmed.
Revealing the findings of the survey, Kingsley said: "We were amazed by the results."
The survey, which questioned 818 young people aged between 11 and 19, also looked at the methods used by young people to hurt themselves.
In Asian young people the most common form of self-abuse was punching themselves, with 68 per cent saying they used this method compared to 48 per cent of the other groups surveyed. Cutting was used by 73 per cent of the general self-harming population, and was used by 33 per cent of Asian self-harmers.
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