Teen Self-Harm Increased Among All Groups

The following is excerpted from an online article posted by The Daily Californian.

A team led by UC Berkeley researchers at the School of Public Health published a study revealing an increase in self-harm among American adolescents, especially among young women and multiracial people over a 16-year period.

The study, analyzing admissions to California hospitals from 2005 to 2021, found 231,000 descriptions of self-harm among admitted patients who were 10 to 19 years old, breaking down the results by age, gender and race. The study found that the incidence of self-harm has increased among all groups, but found that the rate of self-harm diagnoses approximately tripled among multiracial, female adolescents, the highest increase across the variables measured.

Young multiracial women also have the highest rates of self-harm diagnosis. The study finds that across all groups, young women are diagnosed with self-harm symptoms at rates three times higher than adolescent men. Multiracial young men are also the most likely to present self-harm symptoms among young men.

The study was conducted in collaboration with researchers from New York University and the University of Minnesota.

Source: The Daily Californian
https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/research-and-ideas/teen-self-harm-increased-among-all-groups-says-uc-berkeley-study/article_d6c13ab5-4f89-4a3b-82fe-228fc45a21c6.html