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Parents’ lived experience of adolescents’ repeated non-suicidal self-injury in China: a qualitative study
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The prevalence of non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is high among adolescents. Parents have significant impact on the development of NSSI. Many quantitative studies have demonstrated the relationship between parental factors such as parenting behaviors and adolescents’ NSSI....
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8796418/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35090423 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-022-03715-7 |
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author | Wang, Xu Huang, Xuehua Huang, Xia Zhao, Wenting |
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description | BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The prevalence of non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is high among adolescents. Parents have significant impact on the development of NSSI. Many quantitative studies have demonstrated the relationship between parental factors such as parenting behaviors and adolescents’ NSSI. However, few studies have explored parents’ responses and adolescent-parent reciprocal interaction during repeated NSSI. This study aimed to explore parents’ cognition, behaviors and adolescent-parent reciprocal interaction during repeated NSSI. METHODS: This is a phenomenological study. By purposive sampling, 24 parents of adolescents with repeated NSSI were recruited from a child and adolescent psychiatric ward in a mental health center in Chengdu, China. Semi-structured interviews were conducted and audio-recorded. Audio-recordings were transcribed verbatim and analyzed using thematic analysis. FINDINGS: Three themes were identified: parents’ attribution, perceptions and coping behaviors of NSSI. Chronic stress of adolescents and triggers of NSSI were associated with parental expectations. Parents initially perceived NSSI as a manifestation of puberty, a way of making needs met or a coping strategy of negative emotions, and gradually realized that it was a condition requiring psychological assistance. Parents’ coping behaviors of NSSI were divided into 4 stages, namely denial, dissuasion, reflection and adaptation, and working as a team. To be more specific, parents’ coping strategies at dissuasion stage included criticizing and conciliating, while those at reflection and adaptation stage included neglecting, avoiding conflicts and increasing control. CONCLUSIONS: These findings suggest that adjusting parents’ expectation and negative perceptions of NSSI is beneficial to reduce adolescent-parent conflict and adolescents’ inner conflict and prevent NSSI. Furthermore, it’s necessary to publicize NSSI related knowledge to promote the early detection and treatment of NSSI. |
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spelling | pubmed-87964182022-02-03 Parents’ lived experience of adolescents’ repeated non-suicidal self-injury in China: a qualitative study Wang, Xu Huang, Xuehua Huang, Xia Zhao, Wenting BMC Psychiatry Research BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The prevalence of non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is high among adolescents. Parents have significant impact on the development of NSSI. Many quantitative studies have demonstrated the relationship between parental factors such as parenting behaviors and adolescents’ NSSI. However, few studies have explored parents’ responses and adolescent-parent reciprocal interaction during repeated NSSI. This study aimed to explore parents’ cognition, behaviors and adolescent-parent reciprocal interaction during repeated NSSI. METHODS: This is a phenomenological study. By purposive sampling, 24 parents of adolescents with repeated NSSI were recruited from a child and adolescent psychiatric ward in a mental health center in Chengdu, China. Semi-structured interviews were conducted and audio-recorded. Audio-recordings were transcribed verbatim and analyzed using thematic analysis. FINDINGS: Three themes were identified: parents’ attribution, perceptions and coping behaviors of NSSI. Chronic stress of adolescents and triggers of NSSI were associated with parental expectations. Parents initially perceived NSSI as a manifestation of puberty, a way of making needs met or a coping strategy of negative emotions, and gradually realized that it was a condition requiring psychological assistance. Parents’ coping behaviors of NSSI were divided into 4 stages, namely denial, dissuasion, reflection and adaptation, and working as a team. To be more specific, parents’ coping strategies at dissuasion stage included criticizing and conciliating, while those at reflection and adaptation stage included neglecting, avoiding conflicts and increasing control. CONCLUSIONS: These findings suggest that adjusting parents’ expectation and negative perceptions of NSSI is beneficial to reduce adolescent-parent conflict and adolescents’ inner conflict and prevent NSSI. Furthermore, it’s necessary to publicize NSSI related knowledge to promote the early detection and treatment of NSSI. BioMed Central 2022-01-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8796418/ /pubmed/35090423 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-022-03715-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Wang, Xu Huang, Xuehua Huang, Xia Zhao, Wenting Parents’ lived experience of adolescents’ repeated non-suicidal self-injury in China: a qualitative study |
title | Parents’ lived experience of adolescents’ repeated non-suicidal self-injury in China: a qualitative study |
title_full | Parents’ lived experience of adolescents’ repeated non-suicidal self-injury in China: a qualitative study |
title_fullStr | Parents’ lived experience of adolescents’ repeated non-suicidal self-injury in China: a qualitative study |
title_full_unstemmed | Parents’ lived experience of adolescents’ repeated non-suicidal self-injury in China: a qualitative study |
title_short | Parents’ lived experience of adolescents’ repeated non-suicidal self-injury in China: a qualitative study |
title_sort | parents’ lived experience of adolescents’ repeated non-suicidal self-injury in china: a qualitative study |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8796418/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35090423 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-022-03715-7 |
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