Citation

Sansone RA, Songer DA, Miller KA. Int. J. Psychiatry Clin. Prac. 2007; 11(1): 73-75.

Affiliation

Departments of Psychiatry and Internal Medicine, Wright State University School of Medicine, Dayton, OH.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/13651500600736742

PMID

24941278

Abstract

Self-harm behavior is relatively common among psychiatric patients, but few studies have examined such behavior in the context of Axis I diagnoses. In this study among 110 psychiatric inpatients, we examined clinical psychiatric diagnoses and surveyed participants for self-harm behaviors. Surprisingly, using five diagnostic groupings, there were no between-group differences in the endorsement of individual, total number of, or high-lethal self-harm behaviors. Our results suggest that the number and character of self-harm behaviors does not relate to psychiatric diagnosis among psychiatric inpatients.

Language: en