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Abstract
Background: Self-injurious behavior (SIB) is one of the common psychiatric emergencies in medical practice. It has become a global health problem with rates increasing over time. What makes young people cut, scratch, carve or burn their skin, hit or punch themselves, or even bang their heads against a wall? For years, psychologists theorized that such self-injurious behaviors helped to regulate these sufferers’ negative emotions.
Objectives: The aim of this study is: to determine association between psychiatric disorders and self-injurious behaviour, to highlight types of self-injurious behavior, to explore motives of self-injurious behavior.
Patients and Methods: Our study is a case control study which was conducted on 100 self- injurious patients who presented to ER and not known to have a psychiatric illness, 50 subjects with no history of psychiatric disorders or self-injury behaviour, case group was referred to institute of psychiatry, Ain Shams University Hospitals.
Results: The two groups were matched with a mean age of 22.21 ± 2.02 in group (A) Subjects with self- injurious behavior, 21.82±1.84 in group (B) Controls. Socio-demographics in our study indicates that the samples were matched and fit for the comparative study (i.e. a homogenous sample).
Conclusion: Our study’s main interest is to determine association between psychiatric disorders and self-injurious behaviour, highlight types and explore motives of self-injurious behaviour among a sample of patients with self-injurious behaviour group (A) and controls group (B). Psychiatric diagnosis is prominent in self-injurious patients than controls.