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Barriers to help-seeking for deliberate self-harm: Construction and validation of a questionnaire for Portuguese adolescents and young adults
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Objective Deliberate self-harm (DSH) is a prevalent and significant public health concern. However, help-seeking remains notably low, and there is no previously published work providing a validated measurement to address the barriers to help-seeking for DSH. This study developed and validated the Questionnaire of Barriers to Help-seeking for Deliberate Self-harm (QBH-DSH), an instrument designed to measure perceived barriers to help-seeking among adolescents and young adults with a lifetime history of DSH. Methods The QBH-DSH was developed by adapting items from the Barriers to Help-seeking Scale (BHSS, Mansfield et al., 2005) and incorporating insights from interviews with a clinical sample of adolescents with a history of these behaviors and from Portuguese research on this topic. Results An initial 29-item version of the questionnaire was reduced to a 20-item scale with a four-factor structure through an exploratory and a confirmatory factor analysis. Conclusions The scale demonstrated good model fit and reliability, providing a foundation for targeted prevention and intervention strategies focused on promoting help-seeking.
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Self-injurious behaviors Suicide Adolescence Help-seeking Deliberate self-harm
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Fuschini, B., Duarte, E., Gomes, H. S., & Gouveia-Pereira, M. (2026). Barriers to help-seeking for deliberate self-harm: construction and validation of a questionnaire for Portuguese adolescents and young adults. Current Psychology, 45(11). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-026-09046-0
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC