{"id":192615,"date":"2025-06-17T20:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T20:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/192615\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T20:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T20:48:09","slug":"singapore-study-reveals-1-in-4-young-people-have-self-harmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/192615\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore study reveals 1 in 4 young people have self-harmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One in four <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/singapore?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">Singaporeans<\/a> aged 15 to 35 have engaged in deliberate self-harm at least once, researchers have found, with the behaviour especially prevalent among teenagers \u2013 highlighting mounting concerns about emotional distress and unhealthy coping strategies in younger age groups.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The findings, published in March, were drawn from a national study conducted by Singapore\u2019s Institute of Mental Health (IMH) involving 2,600 respondents. It categorised behaviours such as cutting, burning, hitting or other forms of deliberate self-harm as non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI).<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The median age that such self-harm starts is 14, while males typically have a second peak at around age 18, according to the study.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Roughly 11.6 per cent of respondents reported engaging in self-harm at least five times.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Cutting was the most prevalent form of self-injury, cited by about 13.5 per cent of respondents, followed by severe scratching, self-punching and headbanging.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Although NSSI is not formally classified as a mental disorder, experts have cautioned that it often reflects underlying psychological distress. Swapna Verma, chairman of IMH\u2019s medical board, told The Straits Times that young people may turn to self-harm when overwhelmed by emotions they are unable to manage in healthier ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One in four Singaporeans aged 15 to 35 have engaged in deliberate self-harm at least once, researchers have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[15765,78678,78675,105,3749,36152,218,78677,78674,1115,41472,78679,2143,78676,182,78673,449,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-192615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-body-image","9":"tag-deliberate-self-harm","10":"tag-emotional-distress","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-hong-kong","13":"tag-kosovo","14":"tag-mental-health","15":"tag-mental-health-support-hotline","16":"tag-non-suicidal-self-injury","17":"tag-norway","18":"tag-self-harm","19":"tag-sherilyn-chang","20":"tag-singapore","21":"tag-singapores-institute-of-mental-health","22":"tag-social-media","23":"tag-swapna-verma","24":"tag-tiktok","25":"tag-uk","26":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114700675007619807","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}