Project Title
What Goes Online, Stays Online?: Examining the Role of Online Deliberate Self-harm Activities and the Relation Between Individual and Relational Factors and Deliberate Self-harm
Principal Investigator:
Found/Reference:
APPsyCI (FCT/UIDB/05299/2020)
Principal Investigator:
Maria Gouveia Pereira
Research Team:
Eva Duarte, Mariana Miranda
A descriptive paragraph of the project:
Deliberate self-harm (DSH) is a major public health concern in adolescence with an impact on suicide risk. The international research evidence shows that adolescents with and without DSH are increasingly engaging in various online DSH activities. However, we found no national studies that focused on DSH-related internet use. Thus, with the present research project, we aim to provide a new approach regarding the phenomenon of online DSH representations and how adolescents interact with these contents. Besides, we intend to construct and validate an instrument to assess online DSH activities, which will be a relevant methodological contribution to future research in this field. Finally, we propose to identify which are the best suicide risk indicators. Sharing this project results will simultaneously contribute to create greater awareness about online DSH activities and to develop preventive measures and psychological interventions that better adjust to adolescent experience of DSH.
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