TY - JOUR
T1 - The motivations for self-injury in psychiatric inpatients
AU - Osuch, Elizabeth A.
AU - Noll, Jennie G.
AU - Putnam, Frank W.
N1 - Funding Information:
DC. Frank W. Putnam, MD, is Director, Mayerson Center for Safe & Healthy Children, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH. This work was conducted while the first author was in residency training at Sheppard Pratt. For reprints contact the Trauma Disorders Service Line, Sheppard Pratt Health Systems, Baltimore, MD 21285-6815. Tel: (410) 938-5070. The authors acknowledge Sheppard Pratt Health Systems for financial support of this project; Don Ross, MD; Anne Stoline, MD; the clinical staff of the General Adult and Trauma Disorders Units; Ms. Stephanie Warner; the staff of the Kubie Library; Ms. Susan Duckowitz; Roger Lewin, MD; and Una McCann,
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - Nonsuicidal self-injurious behavior (SIB) occurs in both culturally appropriate and culturally inappropriate forms. It is one of the diagnostic criteria for borderline personality disorder, but it occurs in several psychiatric and neurological populations. The personal intent of SIB in psychiatric populations is incompletely understood. A self-report scale (Self-Injury Motivation Scale; SIMS) to assess motivation for self-injury was developed. Relationships among motivation for SIB, characteristics of SIB, and psychopathology were explored. A semistructured interview and the SIMS, Dissociative Experiences Scale, Beck Depression Inventory, Davidson Trauma Scale, and Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-II were given to 99 consecutively admitted inpatients. The SIMS had good reliability and validity. A high SIMS score suggested distinct psychopathology. Several factors on the SIMS differentiated motivations for SIB. Patients with different SIMS factor profiles had different psychopathology.
AB - Nonsuicidal self-injurious behavior (SIB) occurs in both culturally appropriate and culturally inappropriate forms. It is one of the diagnostic criteria for borderline personality disorder, but it occurs in several psychiatric and neurological populations. The personal intent of SIB in psychiatric populations is incompletely understood. A self-report scale (Self-Injury Motivation Scale; SIMS) to assess motivation for self-injury was developed. Relationships among motivation for SIB, characteristics of SIB, and psychopathology were explored. A semistructured interview and the SIMS, Dissociative Experiences Scale, Beck Depression Inventory, Davidson Trauma Scale, and Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-II were given to 99 consecutively admitted inpatients. The SIMS had good reliability and validity. A high SIMS score suggested distinct psychopathology. Several factors on the SIMS differentiated motivations for SIB. Patients with different SIMS factor profiles had different psychopathology.
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U2 - 10.1080/00332747.1999.11024881
DO - 10.1080/00332747.1999.11024881
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85038041199
SN - 0033-2747
VL - 62
SP - 334
EP - 346
JO - Psychiatry
JF - Psychiatry
IS - 4
ER -
