Suicide attempt and self‐mutilation among Turkish high school students in relation with abuse, neglect and dissociation
- 8 January 2003
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
- Vol. 57 (1) , 119-126
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1440-1819.2003.01088.x
Abstract
A questionnaire consisting of items about abuse, neglect, self-mutilation and suicide attempt and the Turkish Version of the Dissociative Experiences Scale were given to 862 high school students. The rates of suicide attempt and self-mutilative behaviors were 10.1% and 21.4%, respectively. Abused or neglected groups (34.3%) had 7.6-fold higher suicide attempts and 2.7-fold higher self-mutilation behaviours. The logistic regression model showed that each type of trauma and dissociation contributed to suicide attempts and self-mutilation, but dissociation was the most powerful. Suicidal and self-destructive adolescents should precisely be evaluated for abuse, neglect and dissociation in clinical practice.Keywords
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