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A STUDY OF HUNGARIAN ADOLESCENT OUTPATIENTS SUFFERING FROM SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOUR

János Csorba ; Lorand Eotvos University of Sciences,Faculty of Special Education, Inst. of Pathology, Budapest, Hungary
Elek Dinya ; EGIS Pharmaceuticals PLC, Medical Dept. Budapest, Hungary
Edit Ferencz ; University of Veszprem, Faculty of Paedagogical Psychology, Veszprem, Hungary
Eszter Páli ; Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Outpatient Centre, Unified Health Institutions, Pecs, Hungary
Edit Nagy ; Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Outpatient Centre, Unified Health Institutions, Pecs, Hungary
Ágnes Horváth ; Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Outpatient Centre, Unified Health Institutions, Pecs, Hungary
Mariann Vados ; Child and Adolescent Psychiatic Outpatient Centre, St.George’s Hospital, Szekesfehervar, Hungary

Sažetak

In this pilot study (Study A), the authors administered the Hungarian standard version of Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and the translated version of the Ottawa Self Injury Inventory (OSI) to students of 3 educational facilities in a county town. Fourteen to eighteen year old pupils were tested in order to measure the key
symptoms of depression and the frequency and characteristics of self-injurious behaviour among this sample of the high school population. Twentysix youngsters were found to have had any form of self-injurious actions in their life-time. The paper presents descriptive data on the basis of statistics of symptom occurence.
Although the depressive symptoms have an expected correlation with the selfinjurious ideas,depression seems not to have the same relationships with actual selfharm action. In study B, the authors present descriptive statistics on the data of 48 female outpatients from the total pool of 72 adolescents aged 14 through to-18 years
(average age 16.1 years) showing symptoms of self-injurious behavior according to the Ottawa Self Injury Inventory (OSI). All patients were recruited from a one-year clinical,representative sample of the „Pannonia” multicentre adolescent psychiatry
survey. Ten point two percent of consecutively referred and 25.6% of treated adolescent patients had symptoms of self-injurious behavior over a one-year period in 4 Transdanubian Child Psychiatric Centers, which is more frequent than the expected rate. Referring to the clinical diagnoses of adolescents confirmed by
M.I.N.I. Plus Diagnostic Interview, the authors estimate, that the majority of these young people suffered from episode(s) of present or past major depression, from whatever form of anxiety disorder and/or from suicidal behaviour. The study presents details of risk behavior including motivations, frequency of acts, ideas, afflicted body regions, emotional correlates, secondary obtained benefits,
escalation of problem behavior and consequences in detail.

Ključne riječi

school-based and a regional-representative study; Hungarian adolescent outpatient sample practising self-injury; Ottawa/Queen’s Self-Injury Questionnaire (OSI); M.I.N.I.Plus International Neuropsychiatric Interview; clinical diagnoses; characteristics of risk behaviour

Hrčak ID:

48612

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/48612

Datum izdavanja:

10.2.2010.

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