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During the past year, did you ever intentionally any of the following. | No | Yes |
Number | Percent | Number | Percent |
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(1) Cut your wrist, arms, or other area(s) of your body? | 3042 | 91.7% | 277 | 8.3% |
(2) Burned yourself with a cigarette? | 3297 | 99.2% | 26 | 0.8% |
(3) Burned yourself with a lighter or a match? | 3274 | 98.7% | 42 | 1.3% |
(4) Carved words into your skin? | 3153 | 95.1% | 161 | 4.9% |
(5) Carved pictures, designs, or other marks into your skin? | 3135 | 94.9% | 169 | 5.1% |
(6) Severely scratched yourself, to the extent that scarring or bleeding occurred? | 2956 | 89.6% | 343 | 10.4% |
(7) Bit yourself, to the extent that you broke the skin? | 3045 | 92.6% | 244 | 7.4% |
(8) Rubbed sandpaper on your body? | 3263 | 99.1% | 30 | 0.9% |
(9) Dripped acid onto your skin? | 3279 | 99.7% | 10 | 0.3% |
(10) Used bleach, comet, or oven cleaner to scrub your skin? | 3259 | 99.5% | 16 | 0.5% |
(11) Stuck sharp objects such as needles, pins, and staples, into your skin (not including tattoos, ear piercing, needles used for drug use, or body piercing)? | 3158 | 96.8% | 103 | 3.2% |
(12) Rubbed glass into your skin? | 3178 | 98.4% | 52 | 1.6% |
(13) Broken your own bones? | 3203 | 99.4% | 20 | 0.6% |
(14) Banged your head against something, to the extent that you caused a bruise to appear? | 3060 | 95.7% | 138 | 4.3% |
(15) Punched yourself, to the extent that you caused a bruise to appear? | 2992 | 94.2% | 184 | 5.8% |
(16) Prevented wounds from healing? | 2876 | 91.4% | 272 | 8.6% |
(17) Done anything else to hurt yourself that was not asked about in this questionnaire? | 2986 | 95.3% | 148 | 4.7% |
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Participants who had shown any of the above self-harm behaviors | 2241 | 67.3% | 1087 | 32.7% |
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