Citation

Matsumoto T, Imamura F. Psychiatry Clin. Neurosci. 2008; 62(1): 123-125.

Affiliation

Center for Suicide Prevention, National Institute of Mental Health, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1440-1819.2007.01783.x

PMID

18289152

Abstract

The present study examined the prevalence of self-injury and its association with substance abuse in 2974 junior and senior high-school students, by self-reporting questionnaires. Consequently, 9.9% of students (boys, 7.5%; girls, 12.1%) reported an experience of self-injury at least once. Significant differences were found in substance use-related problems including alcohol abuse, smoking, and illicit drug use (P < 0.001) between students with and without an experience of self-injury. The results also suggest that self-injuring students may more easily gain access to illicit drugs even if they had not yet experienced the use of illicit drugs. Self-injury in adolescence may be associated with substance use and is considered to be a risk factor predicting future illicit

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