Variations in risk and treatment factors among adolescents engaging in different types of deliberate self-harm in an inpatient sample.
This study employs a framework adopted in 2008 by Jacobson, Muehlenkamp, Miller, and Turner to explore differences in risk and treatment factors in a sample of 476 adolescent inpatients grouped with relation to their involvement in deliberately self-harmful (DSH) behavior. Participants were assigned to groups indicating no DSH, nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) only, suicide attempts (SA) only, and NSSI + SA. Groups were compared with respect to their status on a variety of background risk factors (e.g., maltreatment, presenting psychopathology, family history) and in-treatment behaviors (e.g., critical incidents resulting from self-injurious gestures) linked to DSH. Findings generally supported the conclusions drawn by Jacobson et al. in terms of the overall severity of youth exhibiting NSSI + SA, with some important similarities observed between the NSSI-only and NSSI + SA groups.
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Paul
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Department of Psychology, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ 07102, USA. pboxer@psychology.rutgers.edu
D000293:Adolescent; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D002648:Child; D016208:Databases, Factual; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients; D008297:Male; D012306:Risk; D012307:Risk Factors; D016728:Self-Injurious Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires