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ผู้วิจัย/Authors: Lilian Zollner

ชื่อเรื่อง/Title: Deliberate self-harm in adolescents with a non-western background.

แหล่งที่มา/Source: The 1st Asia Pacific Regional Conference of The International Association for Suicide Prevention (AISP), 6-8 October 2004, The Imperial Queen's Park Hotel, Bangkok Thailand, Page 51.

รายละเอียด / Details:

Objectives: An increasing number of adolescents attempt suicide, but little is known of whether adolescents with a foreign background living in Denmark are at geater rsik of engaging in self-harming behaviour compared to ethnic danish adolescents. Further more, there is a need for knowledge of which coping strategies they utilize in advers situations. Methods: A quantitative and qualitative study, based on a European project: The Child & Adolescent Self-harm in Europe (CASE) study. Results: Serious thouthts abput self-harm are present in a third of the total population of adolescents and more than 10% have harmed themselves. Self-harming behaviour, as well as thouthts about self-harm, and significantly more common in adolescents coming from a Western background than among non-Western adolescents. Adolescents coming from a non-Western backgroumd utilize different coping strategies than Western adolescent when faced with adverse situations in life. This has implications for prevention. Compared to adolescents with a Western background more non-Western adolescents have family ties, which at the same time can have a protective and a detrimental effect of the individual. Conclusion: Adolescents have completed a comprehensive questionnaire concerning self-harm. The results show that compared to non-Western adolescents, adolescents coming from a Western background have a higher prevalence of self-harm.

Keywords: suicide, psychiatry, adolescent, suicidal attempt, Denmark, self-harm, foreign background, non-western, adolescence,

ปีที่เผยแพร่/Year: 2004

Address: Centre for Suicide Research, Odense, Denmark

Code: 20040000106

ISSN/ISBN: -

Country of publication: Thailand.

Language: English.

Category: Abstract Paper.

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