News tagged with self injury


Controlling alcohol habits as students find 'release' may avoid later addiction

(Medical Xpress)—Current college culture allows for an environment where risks of addiction and alcohol dependency increase while mental health decreases.

Addiction created Apr 24, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Self-injury in young people is gateway to suicide

(Medical Xpress)—Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI)—deliberately harming one's body through such acts as cutting, burning or biting—is a primary risk factor for future suicide in teens and young adults, finds a new longitudinal ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Dec 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Кesearcher identifies factors to help parents and professionals recognize teens in distress

Suicide is the third-leading cause of death for teens, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Now, a University of Missouri public health expert has identified factors that will help parents, medical ...

Health created Oct 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

People who self-harm are three times as likely to die prematurely often due to poor physical health

People who have a history of self-harm are more than three times as likely to die prematurely as the general population, and not just from the obvious causes, with deaths due to natural causes at least two times greater than ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Sep 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Suicide risk for older people who self-harm

Older people who self-harm are at much greater risk of suicide than both the general population and younger adults who self-harm, a new study has found. Researchers from The University of Manchester studied 1,177 people over ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created May 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

One in three households misreports smoke alarm coverage

One in three households in Baltimore misreports its smoke alarm coverage, with the vast majority of errors due to over-reporting coverage, according to a study by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research ...

Health created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A decade of study provides insights into the world of self-injurers

During the past 10 years two Colorado professors have collected the widest available base of knowledge about people who practice self-injury and now are offering new insights into people who deliberately injure ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Sep 08, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 4

A new study on self-injury behavior encourages quick and targeted intervention

While the disturbing act of self-injury is nothing new to adolescents, researchers and physicians at Nationwide Children's Hospital have identified a more severe type of behavior that is raising some concern among medical ...

Health created May 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0