Commentary: Self‐harm: a global health priority – reflections on Brunner et al. (2014)

The accompanying cross‐sectional study by Brunner et al. (2014) investigates the prevalence and correlates of self‐injury in adolescents. It is one of the largest epidemiological studies of its kind published to date. Self‐injury by cutting is a strong independent predictor of suicide (Hawton et al., 2012), therefore, understanding the prevalence and psychosocial correlates of this behaviour is of great importance.