High-school students and self-injurious thoughts and behaviours: clues of emotion dysregulation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Suicide attempts and self-harm in adolescence are a major public health concern: they are among the main causes of disability-adjusted life-years worldwide, with severe long-term health consequences in terms of mental illness and psychiatric hospitalisation and a significantly increased risk of suicide. Several studies recently focused on the hypothesis that adolescents may be particularly vulnerable to emotional dysregulation and on the relation between problems with emotion regulation and suicidal and self-harming behaviours. Italian epidemiological data about prevalence of these behaviours at the community level are lacking. Our study aimed to estimate the prevalence of self-injurious thoughts and behaviours (SITBs) in a representative sample of community adolescents,

SUBMITTER: Zanus C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7821399 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature