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Dataset-specific publications, such as Data Explained documents and user guides, can be found on the ADR UK Data Catalogue or on Flagship datasets.

21 February 2025

Data Insight: Childhood contact with social services, self-harm and suicidal or self-harm ideation in young adulthood

This Data Insight uses population-wide data in Northern Ireland (NI) to quantify the association between childhood contact with social services and presentation to an emergency department (ED) with self-harm or thoughts of suicide or self-harm in young adulthood.

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18 October 2024

Data Insight: Physical health disparities and mortality among people with severe mental illness in Northern Ireland

This Data Insight examines the relationship between severe mental illness (SMI), selected chronic disorders, and mortality in a population attending at hospital settings in Northern Ireland (NI) over a 12-year period.

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7 May 2024

Young person's Data Insight: Childhood contact with social services and self-harm in young adulthood

This study looks at young adults in Northern Ireland (NI) and their risk of presenting to hospital with self-harm, or thoughts about self-harm and suicide (known as ideation). It asks whether risk is higher for young adults that were involved with social services during childhood.

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30 March 2023

Data Insight: Mind the gap: an administrative data analysis of dental treatment outcomes and severe mental illness

While people with severe mental illness are at high risk of chronic physical health conditions and premature mortality, little attention has been given to oral health disparities. Based on a large administrative dataset, this study allows an in-depth examination of disparities in dental health outcomes with respect to severe mental illness.

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29 June 2022

Data Insights: Variations in Covid-19 vaccination uptake among people in receipt of psychotropic drugs

This data insight from ADR Northern Ireland investigates the link between people in Northern Ireland receiving psychotropic drugs, as an indicator of mental health conditions, and their likelihood of receiving a Covid-19 vaccination.

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4 September 2020

Data Insights: The relationship between mental disorder, occupation type and family demands (August 2020)

This study uses data linkage to examine mental disorder across occupation types and the association of family demands in Northern Ireland.

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7 August 2020

Data Insights: The effect of exposure to air pollution on health and mortality (August 2020)

This study uses individual-level longitudinal data to investigate, for the first time in Northern Ireland, the link between health outcomes and long-term exposure to ambient pollution between 2001 and 2018.

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