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. 2012 Apr 1;2012:932540. doi: 10.1100/2012/932540

Table 2.

Percentage of participants with self-harming behavior.

During the past year, did you ever intentionally any of the following No Yes
Number Percent Number Percent
(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%

Participants who had shown any of the above self-harm behaviors 2241 67.3% 1087 32.7%