Help-seeking behavior among Japanese school students who self-harm: Results from a self-report survey of 18,104 adolescents

Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment

Volumn 8, Issue , 2012, Pages 561-569

  Watanabe, Norio ^a   Nishida, Atsushi ^b   Shimodera, Shinji ^c   Inoue, Ken ^d   Oshima, Norihito ^e   Sasaki, Tsukasa ^e   Inoue, Shimpei ^c   Akechi, Tatsuo ^a   Furukawa, Toshi A ^f   Okazaki, Yuji ^g  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^d FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f KYOTO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^g TOKYO METROPOLITAN MATSUZAWA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Help seeking; Japan; Prevention; Self harm

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUTOMUTILATION; CHILD; CONSULTATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HIGH SCHOOL; HUMAN; JAPAN; JAPANESE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL ASPECT; STUDENT; SUICIDAL IDEATION;

EID: 84870287953     PISSN: 11766328     EISSN: 11782021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/NDT.S37543     Document Type: Article

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