Research Article

Depressive Symptoms and Deliberate Self-Harm in a Community Sample of Adolescents: A Prospective Study

Table 3

Comparison between the clusters on gender, total depression score, and self-harm.

ClusternProportionTotal depr.Self-harm
girls/boys -score(DSHI-9r scores)
TimeT1T1T1T1T2 ( )

Depression cluster 2720/7 1.3721.816.2 (21)
Mild/moderate depression 8153/28 0.68 5.45.9 (73)
Fatigue and problems with parents 5332/21 0.42 7.97.9 (43)
Fatigue and problems with friends 6527/38 0.16 1.52.7 (56)
Negative self-cluster 7145/26 0.20 4.85.5 (63)
Sadness/loneliness cluster 9056/34 0.04 2.03.2 (84)
Concentration difficulties cluster 9737/60 −0.08 2.32.5 (87)
Average problems cluster12637/89 0.01 2.62.2 (113)
No problems cluster15487/66 −0.32 0.81.9 (150)
Happy and healthy cluster18982/107 −0.58 0.81.0 (177)