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A naturalistic study of the relationship between self-harm behaviors and Axis I diagnostic groupings among inpatients
Randy A Sansone1, Douglas A Songer, Kimberly A Miller
1Departments of Psychiatry and Internal Medicine, Wright State University School of Medicine, Dayton, OH.
Abstract:
Self-harm behavior is relatively common among psychiatric patients, but few studies have examined such behavior in the context of Axis I diagnoses. In this study among 110 psychiatric inpatients, we examined clinical psychiatric diagnoses and surveyed participants for self-harm behaviors. Surprisingly, using five diagnostic groupings, there were no between-group differences in the endorsement of individual, total number of, or high-lethal self-harm behaviors. Our results suggest that the number and character of self-harm behaviors does not relate to psychiatric diagnosis among psychiatric inpatients.
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