The gendered relationship between illicit substance use and self-harm in university students.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To estimate associations between multiple forms of substance use with self-harming thoughts and behaviours, and to test whether gender is an effect modifier of these associations, both independently and along with perceived risk of cannabis use.

Methods

Data were drawn from the 2018 Norwegian Students' Health and Wellbeing Study (SHoT 2018). A national sample of n = 50,054 full-time Norwegian students (18-35 years) pursuing higher education completed a cross-sectional student health survey, including questions on past-year self-harm: non-suicidal thoughts of self-harm, non-suicidal self-harm, suicidal thoughts, and suicide attempt. Students reported their frequency of past-year alcohol use (range: never to ≥ 4 times/ week), illicit substance consumption, and perceive

SUBMITTER: Hammond NG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12000169 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature