@article{ref1,
title="The prevalence of deliberate self-harm behavior and its association with sociodemographic features in patients referred to secondary care psychiatric clinic for adolescents and young adults",
journal="Thinking man: the journal of psychiatry and neurological sciences",
year="2011",
author="Saçarçelik, Gülhazar and Türkcan, Ahmet and Güveli, Hülya and Yeşilbaş, Dilek",
volume="24",
number="4",
pages="253-264",
abstract="Object: In this study, the prevalence of deliberate self-harm behavior and its association with sociodemographic features in patients referred to secondary care psychiatric clinic of adolescents and young adults was researched.  Methods: Overall 300 patients, who successively referred to the secondary care clinic for adolescents and young adults in Bakırköy Research and Training Hospital for Psychiatry, Neurology and Neurosurgery throughout a month were evaluated by using a sociodemographic form, a deliberate self-harm and intent screening form, and those who were found to perform a deliberative self-harm, were assessed with a deliberative self-harm inventory.  Results: The ratio of deliberate self-harm in all patients participated in the study was 50% (n=150). Behavior of deliberate self-harm was found to be 56.8% (n=129) in girls and 28.8% (n=21) in boys, and the difference was significant. The most frequent deliberate self-harm type was taking high dose pill (73.3%) in girls and body cutting in boys (66.7%).  Discussion: In our study, in one of the two adolescents treated in psychiatry clinic, a deliberate self-harm behavior was observed and this was higher among girls than boys.<p />",
language="en",
issn="1018-8681",
doi="10.5350/DAJPN2011240401",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.5350/DAJPN2011240401"
}