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Adolescents' Non-suicidal Behavior and Perception of Parents' Negative Emotional Expression and Family Communication

Relationship Between Non-suicidal Self-injury Behaviors in Adolescents and Young Adults and Perceived Parental Negative Emotional Expression and Family Communication Styles in Children:A Case-control Study

Status
Not yet recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Observational
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT06290115
Enrollment
324
Registered
2024-03-04
Start date
2024-04-01
Completion date
2024-12-31
Last updated
2024-03-13

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Conditions

Adolescents

Keywords

Adolescents and Young Adults, Non-suicidal self-injury, Parental emotional expressivity, Family communication patterns

Brief summary

The starting point of this project is to study young people and adolescents, aiming to explore the correlation between non-suicidal behavior of young people and adolescents and the negative emotional expression of their parents and family communication. The purpose of this project is to investigate the non-suicidal self-injury behavior of teenagers aged 15-25 years by issuing questionnaires (sample size: 327 people). In order to find out whether there is any connection between family communication and non-suicidal self-injury behavior of young people and adolescents.

Detailed description

The incidence of non-suicidal self-injury(NSSI) among adolescents has obviously increased, which should attract the attention of the whole society. Their mental health problems will not only lead to personal pain and family burden, but also bring potential negative effects to future social development. Therefore, it is necessary to study the psychological problems of teenagers and their influencing factors. This study will conduct a case-control study from the perspective of family, and analyze the negative emotional expression and family communication style of parents of non-suicidal teenagers and their influence on non-suicidal self-injury behavior. This study is conducted in the form of scale, which will use the demographic information,the Family Emotional Expressivity Questionnaire(FEEQ)、the Parent-Adolescent Communication Scale(PACS)、the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire(CTQ)、the Parental Bongding Instrument(PBI)、the Adolescent parent-child relationship intimacy questionnaire and the Ottawa Self-injury Inventory(OSI).

Interventions

Participants of case group will be asked to respond to the demographic information,the Family Emotional Expressivity Questionnaire(FEEQ)、the Parent-Adolescent Communication Scale(PACS)、the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire(CTQ)、the Parental Bongding Instrument(PBI)、the Adolescent parent-child relationship intimacy questionnaire and the Ottawa Self-injury Inventory(OSI).

Participants of control group 1 will be asked to respond to the demographic information,the Family Emotional Expressivity Questionnaire(FEEQ)、the Parent-Adolescent Communication Scale(PACS)、the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire(CTQ)、the Parental Bongding Instrument(PBI) and the Adolescent parent-child relationship intimacy questionnaire.

OTHERQuestionnaires set 3

Participants of control group 2 will be asked to respond to the demographic information,the Family Emotional Expressivity Questionnaire(FEEQ)、the Parent-Adolescent Communication Scale(PACS)、the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire(CTQ)、the Parental Bongding Instrument(PBI) and the Adolescent parent-child relationship intimacy questionnaire.

Sponsors

Sun Yat-sen University
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Observational model
OTHER
Time perspective
CROSS_SECTIONAL

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
15 Years to 25 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes

Inclusion criteria

1.Case group: NSSI patient group: Inclusion Criteria: 1. Patients who meet the diagnostic criteria in DSM-5 and are clinically diagnosed as NSSI; 2. Age range: 15-25 years old; 3. Clear consciousness, normal speech function, able to communicate in Chinese and reading chinese;

Exclusion criteria

1. Users with organic diseases and psychoactive substances; 2. NSSI; caused by autism, TIC disorder, mental retardation and other emotional instability and bad mood; 3. Religious self-injury or customary self-injury; 4. Patients with schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, alcohol dependence, organic mental disorder and other mental disorders have been previously diagnosed. 2.Control group 1: Non-NSSI patients Inclusion criteria: 1. Psychiatric outpatients or inpatients can read and understand the contents of the questionnaire; 2. Patients who do not meet the diagnostic criteria in DSM-5 and are clinically diagnosed as NSSI. 3. Age range: 15-25 years old; 4. Patients and/or guardians can give informed consent and participate in this study.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Non-suicidal self-injury behavior of young people and adolescentsBaselineThere are 28 items in the Ottawa Self-injury Inventory, which are used to evaluate the frequency of NSSI and suicide in the last 1, 6 and 12 months, the age of first onset, the source and concealment of self-injury ideas, and the feeling of self-injury impulse.
Expression of negative emotions of parentsBaselineThere are 40 items in the Parental Emotional Expression Questionnaire, which is used to measure parents' negative emotions. The scale adopts system, and the higher the dimension score, the greater the possibility of negative emotions.
Parent-Adolescent communication scaleBaselineThere are 40 items in the parent-Adolescent communication scale, which is used to measure parent-child communication. The scale adopts Likert 5-point system, and the higher the score, the better the parent-child communication.

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Childhood Trauma QuestionnaireBaselineThere are 28 items in the Childhood Trauma Scale, which are used to measure childhood traumatic experiences. The scale adopts Likert 5-point system, and the higher the score, the more serious the childhood trauma experience.
Parental Bongding InstrumentBaselineThere are 23 items in the Parenting Style Scale, which is used to measure the parenting style. The scale adopts Likert 4-point system, which consists of three factors: caring, encouraging autonomy and controlling.
The parent-child relationship intimacy scaleBaselineThere are 29 items in the parent-child relationship intimacy scale, which are used to measure the parent-child relationship. The scale adopts Likert 5-point system, and the higher the score, the higher the intimacy of parent-child relationship.

Contacts

Primary Contactwei Xia, PhD
xiaw23@mail.sysu.edu.cn18823359471
Backup ContactYang Liu, Master
nancy_a@126.com13602299935

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026