Life‐time prevalence and psychosocial correlates of adolescent direct self‐injurious behavior: A comparative study of findings in 11 European countries

Abstract

These results suggest high lifetime prevalence of D-SIB in European adolescents. Prevalence as well as psychosocial correlates seems to be significantly influenced by both gender and country. These results support the need for a multidimensional approach to better understand the development of SIB and facilitate culturally adapted prevention/intervention.

Epidemiologie psychischer Störungen bei Kindern und Jugendlichen

“…Der naturalistische Verlauf der Störung scheint durch erste Symptome in Pubertät, einen Erkrankungsgipfel in der späten Adoleszenz sowie einer linearen Abnahme im jungen Erwachsenen-Alter gekennzeichnet zu sein. Verfügbare Längsschnittbefunde geben Hinweise, dass BPS eine dynamische Erkrankungsgruppe mit allenfalls mittlerer Stabilität sind, und ein Prozentsatz zwischen 85-99 % der Betroffenen nach 10 Jahren auf der Symptomebene nahezu remittieren (Übersicht in [19,21] [24,25]. Im Gegensatz dazu berichten 30-50 % aller im stationären kinder-und jugendpsychiatrischen Hilfesystem befindlichen Jugendlichen, sich repetitiv selbst zu verletzen [26].…”

Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in Swedish Adolescents : Prevalence, Characteristics, Functions and Associations With Childhood Adversities

“…A single item question rendered a prevalence rate of 17% in a study measuring DSH, without differentiating on the basis of intent (Landstedt & Gillander Gådin, 2011). Internationally, prevalence rates of NSSI in community samples of adolescents usually range somewhere between 13-25% around the world (Baetens et al, 2011;Brunner et al, 2007;Brunner et al, 2014;Guan et al, 2012;Hankin & Abela, 2011;Jacobson & Gould, 2007;Laye-Gindhu & Schonert-Reichl, 2005;Martin, Swannell, Hazell, Harrison, & Taylor, 2010;Muehlenkamp & Gutierrez, 2004;Muehlenkamp, Williams, Gutierrez, & Claes, 2009;Nixon, Cloutier, & Jansson, 2008;Plener, Libal, Keller, et al, 2009;Plener et al, 2013;Tolmunen et al, 2008;You, Leung, Fu, & Lai, 2011;Zoroglu et al, 2003). However, both higher (Cerutti, Manca, Presaghi, & Gratz, 2011;Lloyd-Richardson et al, 2007;Lundh, Karim, & Quilisch, 2007;Yates, Carlson, & Egeland, 2008) and lower (Hilt, Nock, Lloyd-Richardson, & Prinstein, 2008;Patton et al, 2007;Prinstein et al, 2010) estimates have also been found, the latter sometimes due to younger samples.…”

Non Suicidal Self Injury in Adolescence: Psychosocial Predictors

“…To fully understand health and illness, the Biopsychosocial Model (which imposes evaluating and framing the patient within a multiaxial system) must systematically be considered from a developmental perspective [7,8]. It is of the outmost importance to identify the various factors involved in the pathological process: protection and resilience factors, risk and vulnerability factors, precipitating and maintenance factors (Stress-vulnerability Model) (Figure 1).…”