TY - JOUR PY - 2018// TI - Direct Self-Injurious Behavior (D-SIB) and life events among vocational school and high school students JO - International journal of environmental research and public health A1 - Horváth, Lili O. A1 - Balint, Maria A1 - Ferenczi-Dallos, Gyongyver A1 - Farkas, Luca A1 - Gádoros, Julia A1 - Győri, Dóra A1 - Keresztény, Agnes A1 - Meszaros, Gergely A1 - Szentiványi, Dóra A1 - Velo, Szabina A1 - Sarchiapone, Marco A1 - Carli, Vladimir A1 - Wasserman, Camilla A1 - Hoven, Christina W. A1 - Wasserman, Danuta A1 - Balazs, Judit SP - e15061068 EP - e15061068 VL - 15 IS - 6 N2 - Although several studies have recently assessed direct self-injurious behavior (D-SIB) among adolescents, it is still understudied in adolescents attending vocational schools: an educational setting generally associated with lower socioeconomic status. After extending the "Saving and Empowering Young Lives in Europe" (SEYLE) project to a vocational school population, we examined their D-SIB and life event characteristics compared to the high school population. SEYLE's Hungarian randomly selected high school sample (N = 995) was completed with a randomly selected vocational school sample (N = 140) in Budapest, Hungary. Participants aged 14⁻17 years completed the SEYLE project's self-administered questionnaires. D-SIB lifetime prevalence was significantly higher (29.4%) in the vocational school group compared to the high school group (17.2%) (Χ²(1) = 12.231, p< 0.001). D-SIB was associated with suicidal ideation in the vocational school group. Different life events were more frequent in the high school than in the vocational school group, and associations between D-SIB and life events differed in the vocational school group compared to the high school group. In conclusion, vocational school students are a vulnerable population with a higher prevalence of D-SIB compared to high school students. Life events and their association with D-SIB also differ in vocational school students compared to high school students. Taking all these into account might contribute to prevention/intervention designed for this population.

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LA - en SN - 1661-7827 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15061068 ID - ref1 ER -