Citation

Zoroglu SS, Tuzun U, Sar V, Tutkun H, Savaçs HA, Ozturk M, Alyanak B, Kora ME. Psychiatry Clin. Neurosci. 2003; 57(1): 119-126.

Affiliation

Departments of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Gaziantep University Medical Faculty, Gaziantep, Turkey.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2003, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

12519464

Abstract

A questionnaire consisting of items about abuse, neglect, self-mutilation and suicide attempt and the Turkish Version of the Dissociative Experiences Scale were given to 862 high school students. The rates of suicide attempt and self-mutilative behaviors were 10.1% and 21.4%, respectively. Abused or neglected groups (34.3%) had 7.6-fold higher suicide attempts and 2.7-fold higher self-mutilation behaviours. The logistic regression model showed that each type of trauma and dissociation contributed to suicide attempts and self-mutilation, but dissociation was the most powerful. Suicidal and self-destructive adolescents should precisely be evaluated for abuse, neglect and dissociation in clinical practice.

Language: en