Patterns and predictors of self-harm in patients with substance-use disorder

Gupta, Rishi; Narnoli, Shubham; Das, Nileswar; Sarkar, Siddharth; Balhara, Yatan Pal Singh

doi:10.4103/psychiatry.indianjpsychiatry_578_18

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“…The reasons may not be unconnected to the high level of peer influence, risk taking behaviour and experimentation with substances due to developmental changes and challenges in adolescence [19,20]. The high burden of selfharm or suicide in this study could be due to the strong relationship between substance abuse and suicide or self-harm especially, among adolescents and young adults [22,23].…”

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Common adolescent mental health disorders seen in Family Medicine Clinics in Ghana and Nigeria

Kumbet,

Oseni,

Mensah-Bonsu

et al. 2023

PLoS ONE

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Background Mental health disorders among adolescents is on the rise globally. Patients seldom present to mental health physicians, for fear of stigmatization, and due to the dearth of mental health physicians. They are mostly picked during consultations with Family Physicians. This study seeks to identify the common mental health disorders seen by family Physicians in Family Medicine Clinics in Nigeria and Ghana. Methods A descriptive cross-sectional study involving 302 Physicians practicing in Family Medicine Clinics in Nigeria and Ghana, who were randomly selected for the study. Data were collected using self-administered semi-structured questionnaire, and were entered into excel spreadsheet before analysing with IBM-SPSS version 22. Descriptive statistics using frequencies and percentages was used to describe variables. Results Of the 302 Physicians recruited for the study, only 233 completed the study, in which 168 (72.1%) practiced in Nigeria and 65 (27.9%) in Ghana. They were mostly in urban communities (77.3%) and tertiary health facilities (65.2%). Over 90% of Family Medicine practitioners attended to adolescents with mental health issues with over 70% of them seeing at least 2 adolescents with mental health issues every year. The burden of mental health disorder was 16% and the common mental health disorders seen were depression (59.2%), Bipolar Affective Disorder (55.8%), Epilepsy (51.9%) and Substance Abuse Disorder (44.2%). Conclusion Family Physicians in Nigeria and Ghana attend to a good number of adolescents with mental health disorders in their clinics. There is the need for Family Physicians to have specialized training and retraining to be able to recognize and treat adolescent mental health disorders. This will help to reduce stigmatization and improve the management of the disease thus, reducing the burden.

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Section: Plos Onementioning

confidence: 86%

Common adolescent mental health disorders seen in Family Medicine Clinics in Ghana and Nigeria

Kumbet,

Oseni,

Mensah-Bonsu

et al. 2023

PLoS ONE

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“…In recent decades, in relation to coping with the challenges of youth, the prevalence of self-harm has markedly increased (Du et al, 2021;Henry et al, 2021) as a phenomenon within the non-clinical population. In the past intentional self-harm was linked with various mental disorders such as mental retardation (van den Bogaard et al, 2018), autism (Maddox et al, 2017), alcoholism and substance addiction (Gupta et al, 2019), personality disorders (Hawton et al, 2013), schizophrenia (Haw et al, 2005), depression (Parker et al, 2005), and bipolar/anxiety disorders (Singhal et al, 2014), however, today its prevalence among youths who do not suffer from mental disorders is growing. It is considered to be a highly risky and maladaptive strategy used to cope with problems and its current prevalence within the population is reported at 50% (Calvete et al, 2015;Müller et al, 2016).…”

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Differences in the Extent and Function of Self-Harm With Regard To the Sexual Orientation of Youths

Démuthová¹,

Démuth²

2022

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Research in Social Sciences

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During adolescence, the formation of an individual's identity and other developmental tasks are a challenge and frequently put a great deal of mental pressure on a young person. The processes and strategies they select to cope with these burdens may not always be adaptive; during their youth, a young person often reacts with various forms of inappropriate behaviour. One very common maladaptive coping strategy, whose prevalence in the youth population continues to grow, is self-harm. The process of going through their youthful years may be made even more challenging if the individual encounters difficulties in the exploration of their own identity or in how they present it to others. In this context, the nonheterosexually oriented population of youths are particularly at risk. The study focuses on the issue of self-harm in the context of the sexual orientation of a youthbased on a sample of 265 participants aged between 15 and 25 (AM = 19.371). It examines the extent and function of self-harming behaviour and links it to sexual orientation (heterosexual or nonheterosexual). The results showed a statistically significantly higher rate of self-harm (sig. < 0.001) in those youths who are non-heterosexually oriented. Certain specific functions of self-harm (the prevention of dissociation and suicide) were found to dominate within this group which indicates a possible link to other clinical symptoms within self-harm.

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An overview of the applied use of chatbots for substance use disorder: Past, present and future

Ogilvie,

Prescott,

Carson

2024

Couns and Psychother Res

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AimThe purpose of this paper was to critically evaluate the use of chatbots as an eHealth resource for substance use disorder. It considers their past, present and future use, including the progression of the new wave of generative chatbots.FindingsThis paper finds chatbots for substance use disorder to be an underutilised resource, noting that there are few solutions and that these have limitations. It identifies that, along with limitations with general chatbot design, there are also serious ethical concerns given the vulnerabilities of the target population.DiscussionHow a collaborative design can address some of the limitations is discussed, as well as the restrictions this could pose to leveraging the latest technological advances. The ethical concerns presented in the applied use of both existing and prospective chatbots are explored, and how there is a need to safeguard users in matters of mental health support.

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Patterns and predictors of self-harm in patients with substance-use disorder

Cited by 9 publications

References 30 publications

Common adolescent mental health disorders seen in Family Medicine Clinics in Ghana and Nigeria

Common adolescent mental health disorders seen in Family Medicine Clinics in Ghana and Nigeria

Differences in the Extent and Function of Self-Harm With Regard To the Sexual Orientation of Youths

An overview of the applied use of chatbots for substance use disorder: Past, present and future

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