- A brief interview covering past self-inflicted injuries and categorizes them into suicide attempts and nonsuicidal self-injury. 
- Creates counts of self-inflicted injuries by method, medical risk severity, and lethality. 
- Has a Lifetime form and a Recent form which covers a specific assessment period 
- At the baseline of this study, the Lifetime and Recent version (for past year) were conducted 


Suicide Attempt Self-Injury Count 

When NSSI behavior occurs on five or more occasions on five different days in a given year, for the purpose of emotion regulation or the resolution of one’s interpersonal difficulties and cause clinically significant distress and/or impairment.

Non-Suicidal Self-Injury Disorder

The intentional destruction of one’s own body tissue without suicidal intent (ex. cutting, burning, or hitting oneself). Around 4–6% of the general population are estimated to have engaged in NSSI in their lifetime

Saint Louis University

In this study, researchers try to determine the prevalence of Borderline Personality Disorder and self-injurious behaviors among suicidal army soldiers as well as if BPD diagnosis is correlated with higher rates of suicidality.

BPD and Self-Directed Violence Among Suicidal Army Soldiers

Patel, T. A., Mann, A., Blakey, S. M., Aunon, F. M., Calhoun, P. S., Beckham, J. C., & Kimbrel, N. A. (2021). Diagnostic Correlates of Nonsuicidal Self-Injury Disorder among Veterans with Psychiatric Disorders. Psychiatry research, 296, 113672. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113672


Non-Suicidal Self-Injury Among Veterans with Psychiatric Disorders

American Psychological Association. (n.d.). Clinical psychology. American Psychological Association. https://www.apa.org/ed/graduate/specialize/clinical 

American Psychological Association: Clinical Psychology

Non-Suicidal Self-Injury

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- Type 
- Participants
- Measures Utilized
- Statistical Analysis
- Results & Conclusions
- Limitations 
- Further Directions for Research 

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