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Parents' Attitudes Toward and Experience of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in Adolescents: A Qualitative Study.

ABSTRACT: Background:Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is prevalent in adolescents and brings a series of serious consequences to their well-being. However, little is known about parents' attitude toward NSSI in Chinese adolescents. The study aims to investigate the parents' attitudes toward and perceptions of adolescents who have engaged in NSSI behaviors, and the impact of NSSI on their parents. Methods:Purposive sampling was used in the study. The biological parents of adolescents with NSSI were recruited from the psychiatric ward of a tertiary hospital in China. Semi-structured interviews were conducted which contained three aspects, that is the history of NSSI, the process of seeking or maintaining help and the impacts on the family. Each interview typically lasted 40-50 min. All of the interviews were audio-recorded. Their responses were analyzed by the thematic analysis. Results:Twenty participants completed the interview, consisting of 16 mothers and 4 fathers. Three themes and eight sub-themes were extracted: (1) the attitudes to children's NSSI behaviors (ignorance, shame, and stereotype); (2) coping strategies of parents (the initial response to adolescents' NSSI, and the way of help-seeking); (3) the impacts on family (altered parenting and communication styles, limited personal lives, and increased psychological pressure). Conclusion:The results showed that parents lack the knowledge about NSSI and its treatment and are suffering great emotional stress. It is recommended to expand the popularization of knowledge of NSSI in adolescents and more interventions adapted to China's sociocultural climate are required for the well-being of parents and NSSI in adolescents.

SUBMITTER: Fu X

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7373789 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Parents' Attitudes Toward and Experience of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in Adolescents: A Qualitative Study.

Fu Xi X Yang Jiaxin J Liao Xiaoli X Lin Jingjing J Peng Yao Y Shen Yidong Y Ou Jianjun J Li Yamin Y Chen Runsen R

Frontiers in psychiatry 20200715

<h4>Background</h4>Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is prevalent in adolescents and brings a series of serious consequences to their well-being. However, little is known about parents' attitude toward NSSI in Chinese adolescents. The study aims to investigate the parents' attitudes toward and perceptions of adolescents who have engaged in NSSI behaviors, and the impact of NSSI on their parents.<h4>Methods</h4>Purposive sampling was used in the study. The biological parents of adolescents with NSS ...[more]

PMID: 32760298

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Project description:Little is known about the bio-behavioral mechanisms underlying and differentiating suicide attempts from non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) in adolescents. Adolescents who attempt suicide or engage in NSSI often report significant interpersonal and social difficulties. Emotional face recognition ability is a fundamental skill required for successful social interactions, and deficits in this ability may provide insight into the unique brain-behavior interactions underlying suicide attempts versus NSSI in adolescents. Therefore, we examined emotional face recognition ability among three mutually exclusive groups: (1) inpatient adolescents who attempted suicide (SA, n = 30); (2) inpatient adolescents engaged in NSSI (NSSI, n = 30); and (3) typically developing controls (TDC, n = 30) without psychiatric illness. Participants included adolescents aged 13-17 years, matched on age, gender and full-scale IQ. Emotional face recognition was evaluated using the diagnostic assessment of nonverbal accuracy (DANVA-2). Compared to TDC youth, adolescents with NSSI made more errors on child fearful and adult sad face recognition while controlling for psychopathology and medication status (ps < 0.05). No differences were found on emotional face recognition between NSSI and SA groups. Secondary analyses showed that compared to inpatients without major depression, those with major depression made fewer errors on adult sad face recognition even when controlling for group status (p < 0.05). Further, compared to inpatients without generalized anxiety, those with generalized anxiety made fewer recognition errors on adult happy faces even when controlling for group status (p < 0.05). Adolescent inpatients engaged in NSSI showed greater deficits in emotional face recognition than TDC, but not inpatient adolescents who attempted suicide. Further results suggest the importance of psychopathology in emotional face recognition. Replication of these preliminary results and examination of the role of context-dependent emotional processing are needed moving forward.

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Parents' Attitudes Toward and Experience of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in Adolescents: A Qualitative Study.

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Parents' Attitudes Toward and Experience of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in Adolescents: A Qualitative Study.

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