TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - Psychiatric correlates of nonsuicidal cutting behaviors in an adolescent inpatient sample
JO  - Child psychiatry and human development
A1  - Swenson, Lance P.
A1  - Spirito, Anthony
A1  - Dyl, Jennifer
A1  - Kittler, Josef
A1  - Hunt, Jeffrey I.
SP  - 427
EP  - 438
VL  - 39
IS  - 4
N2  - This archival study of 288 adolescent psychiatric inpatients examined the psychiatric correlates of cutting behavior. Participants were categorized into Threshold cutters (n = 61), Subthreshold cutters (n = 43), and Noncutters (n = 184). Groups were compared on psychiatric diagnoses, suicidality, and self-reported impairment. Results demonstrated that females were more likely to cut relative to males; however, gender did not affect the correlates of cutting behavior. Adolescents in the Threshold group were more likely to be diagnosed with Major Depression and had higher self-reported suicidality, depression, and trauma-related symptoms of depression and dissociation relative to the Noncutting group. The Subthreshold group did not differ from the other groupings except for an elevated risk for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder compared to the Noncutting group.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0009-398X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10578-008-0100-2
ID  - ref1
ER  -