To identify the prevalence and risk factors associated with Self Injurious Behaviour among adolescents of selected colleges.

Beryl Benigna Cyriac; Prof Sr Winnifred D�Souza; Sr Deepa Peter

Volume : V, Issue : IX, September - 2016

To identify the prevalence and risk factors associated with Self Injurious Behaviour among adolescents of selected colleges.

Beryl Benigna Cyriac, Prof Sr Winnifred D Souza, Sr Deepa Peter

Abstract :

Background: Adolescence is a transition period where drastic changes take place and many undergo stress and resort to self-injury for relief. Objectives: To identify the prevalence of self injurious behaviour among adolescents and the associated risk factors and find the association of occurrence of self injurious behaviour with selected baseline variables. Method: Data was collected from 500 participants by administering a questionnaire prepared by the researcher. Result: The findings of the study revealed that about, 80.4% of adolescent participants had injured themselves intentionally at least once in their lifetime. Conclusion: SIB is an activity prominently seen among adolescents but which goes unnoticed. Adolescents have to be educated how to avoid such activities.