Prevalence and Help Seeking Behavior for Non-Suicidal Self-Injury on College Students

The high prevalence of NSSI has become a widespread health issue in various countries. Unfortunately, studies Eastern countries are not as many Western This study aims to explore the self-injury behavior students Indonesia. Crowdsourcing approach is used by distributing questionnaires through Google Form. A total 909 aged 18-25 years (mean age = 20.3, SD 1,329, 75.4% female) participants completed Inventory Statements About Self-injury (ISAS) self-report scale comprehensively assess non suicidal (NSSI). Participants were recruited during June 2022–July 2022. results shows 30% involved behavior. mean onset was 15.5 years. As 55% subjects reported having committed more than 50 acts self-injury. methods included slashing (78% hair pulling, hitting 74%, biting 57.1%, interfering wound healing 46.9%, carving 26.7%, pinching 66%, scratching 63.3%, stabbing 25.2%, and ingesting hazardous substance 7.3%. It that 88.3% one method, 17.2% did feel pain while doing In conclusion, among Indonesia different from other Prevention management actions need be developed help people who self-injure have strategies dealing with problems adaptively avoiding risky